Last day of camp

So the last day we of camping we broke camp and drove to an Earthship, which is just about the coolest thing ever. It's a house that's made with almost all recycled materials and completely off the grid-no power, no water, no energy. The walls are made of tires packed with dirt, stacked, and spaces filled in with cans. It's all then covered with adobe. They have solar panels to collect light, and it's built into a hill to conserve heat. The roof collects rain water, which is then filtered for drinking water. Once you're done with drinking water it goes to showers and toilets, which is then filtered again and filtered by plants before it's released to your yard, at that point cleaner than most water sanitation places can make it. The place we went was still under construction, but it's still very cool and actually pretty too. One of the coolest thing is that they don't have to be millions of dollars-the one we went to is like $150-200k, less than a lot of people's houses.

After the Earthship we drove through La Paz for lunch. Most people went to go find American food, but some of us tagged along with some of the professors to this place that does Mexico City food. It was really good, I had a quesadilla with flor de calabaza (pumpkin flower), and a gordita filled with cheese, both with blue corn tortillas. Most of our professors are from Mexico City (chilangos) and they were really excited to have chilango food for once.

We then drove all the way home to return to massive amounts of work.