A little over a week ago Patrick and I managed to make it through a three day jeep tour of the Bolivian desert. We braved brain crushing altitude, ice cold nights and long long bumpy “roads.”

During the excursion we spent a day on the sun bleached plains of the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat.

It was bright white, blinding, and as one might imagine… very very salty.

We also saw a train graveyard, some lagunas and a geyser field.

A few weeks back I took one of the most incredible road trips of my life, a 20 hour van ride through the mountainous deserts of the Himalayas to get to the town of Leh.

I saw incredibly dramatic scenery as we careened down winding mountain roads and across desert plains in our little Force Traveler van. The landscape changes so much. At times it reminded me of the mountains I saw when I backpacked through Denali national park in Alaska and then I would fall asleep and wake up in a place that looked like the surface of the moon. There was just no telling what would come next.

It’s hard to believe that drivers take this trip daily. A good portion of it is unpaved and the at one point the road climbs to a crushing 17,582 feet as you cross the second highest motorable pass in the world at Taglangla.

I plan on putting together a slideshow presentation covering the trip in the few days. For now here are a some stills.