Are we the cause of climate change?

Well, it does feel like it sometimes. This is our fourth 🏜 desert, where it has rained whilst we visit, and it's the 3rd time the rain was so heavy that our progress was temporally halted.

This time, we were travelling to the Tatacoa desert. The last part of the journey is normally a two kilometre walk with a short, small ferry ride at the end. You can see it on the BBC Race Around the World, Series 2, Episode 3 near the end. Couldn't be easier, right?

Wrong! At least when it rains so hard that the river bursts its banks and the last km to the river is totally flooded. The water is above my knees, and for Oscar, it's so high he puts on swim trunks.

Luckily, a local guy helped carry the two heavier suitcases. He did it in style with them on his head. I doubt we would have made it without him. Also because the flood made the route totally unclear at times.

A couple of days later, we were in the actual desert . The red areas and the grey areas are quite spectacular and have lots of big cacti. In truth, this is probably more correctly called semi desert, since there is a lot of ground water just a few meters down. That water allows a lot of thorn bushes to thrive and survive through the long, hot, and dry summer.

We are not the sole cause of climate change, but what we do observe is that the change means that "change" can mean lots more rain in some places , since the heat evapoates water that has to come down somewhere.Read more