A World on Fire
As I make my way through the Yukon headed towards my final destination of The Atacama Desert I watch the cloud of smoke in the distance grow larger and larger, its massive size is like something out of a post apocalyptic disaster movie. I think back on the two travelers I met last night while I debate whether or not to take the fork in the road that will take me away from the fire or closer to it. One man was my age 30 from China named Yu Yang and the other was a 42 year old German man named Roland Kock . Yu Yang was on the end stretch of his journey from Patagonia to Anchorage coming the opposite direction I was headed and Roland was a journalist who promoted travel in Germany. Although they were both seasoned travelers with plenty of adventures behind them their viewpoints on the worl...