Field notes, v1524
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1973 AKP Deers, gas stations, etc etc. Drove to Isla-dain site & weighed some flats. Tying still stay on the flats to re-mark them - Not many tracks, and the flats look quite dried. Did some reorganizing of the truck - which holds now an enormous coffin-like box with assorted gear for numerous expeditions in it. We are taking it to Tacna to find another home for it. Stopped just south of Ica on a piece of desert - and were visited soon after by a pair of foxes. First heard their mores, then got their eyes on us. They were quite curious, but we couldn't get them closer again. Heard lists. March 8 a little south of Canana - Thursday Long desert drive - one along shore, over the road took us further inland. Not look at a popular bus-stop perched above the ocean and picked up a grumbling civil soldier who wanted a ride to Canana. Stopped for the night in low vegetation where the road heads away from the ocean south of Canana. March 9 - Tacna - Friday Breakfast in Nazca, where I also got some glasses from a sidewalk vendor. Lunch in Moquegua, and finally to Tacna in midafternoon. Got rooms in the Gran Hotel Central and started out on errands. Before leaving camp this morning, we dug out