We’ve recently had cause to learn a new Chilean Spanish idiom: kilometric tacos, which means (more or less) “kilometers of traffic jam”. The strike shows no sign of going away, and the rhetoric has gotten somewhat nasty.
So here are some scenic pictures to take your mind off things.
![I had 3 separate run-ins with these morons today.](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_190404009.jpg)
![For the various mothers](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_184314719.jpg)
![This one's for Marcia](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_164115974.jpg)
![are you alive?](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_164130028.jpg)
![do the flowers match the guardrail, or is it the other way around?](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_184757612.jpg)
![only place I've seen this particular flower](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_185022866.jpg)
We had our first Guanaco sighting today:
![Gary! Gary! Gary!](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_184228155.jpg)
![I call this "Ass Telescopio"](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221124_195141918.jpg)
It seems that the first thing you do after Thanksgiving is put up the tree, even if you didn’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving…
![jokes on you, I got thanksgiving anyway!](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PXL_20221125_162806650.jpg)
The song of the day is inspired by how we are currently killing time at our secluded mountain getaway.