January 13, 2011

After breakfast we got onto the road, around 8:30. We had a longer day today, I think it was about 700km from Antofagasto to Arica. But it was just straight and flat, like it has been for the past couple days. Dad and I got into Arica around 5 and stayed at the same place as we did 3 months ago. Once we got our room we wanted to explore the town a little bit. So we started walking down the street and then all of a sudden dad yells "HEY LOOK AT THAT" and I look and it was a dakar shirt, nicely folded up and on display. It was in the printing shop only 5 doors down from the hotel we were staying at. They had stickers too. We were both excited but they only had the shirts in white. So after talking with the owner for a bit he final told us to come back at 8:30. So we went for something to eat and were back at the printing shop for 8:30. He had printed up some grey shirts for us and more stickers. So we bought 2 white t-shirts and 4 grey, and 14 stickers. And he only wanted 20,000 pesos for it all (40 bucks). But we ended up just giving him the rest of our chilean money which was 29,000. Now we have no chilean money and we'll be going into peru tomorrow morning. So everything worked out great.