The mornings only feature the remnants of a head cold, the post-adventure common denominator that chases up the sore muscles that had been put to work day-in, day-out with barely a break for a month.
Only after a brief spell in shoes does the numbness in my toes reappear, but along with the tight quads and tired calves it feels like there's only a week or so left of physical recovery before it'll be time to move again.
The processing has begun. Two back to back expeditions. 2115 miles pedalled, a few of them with the assistance of a fairly inconsistent Chilean prevailing wind which decided for three weeks only to prevail in the wrong direction.
20 days on a Whike and a further 23 on another trike - this time sail-less - designed by the Cornish company Inspired Cycle Engineering: two more expeditions of just over 1000 miles, but most importantly a fairly gentle two.
They certainly weren't easy (sometimes utterly brutal, physically, especially on those hour-long uphills, which are not the ideal realm of tricycles) by any stretch, but individually they held no flame of difficulty to expeditions lasting multiple months - it is the passage of time (and indeed, the days and weeks that remain ahead) that really eats into the psyche and then, once that's gone, the body.
But back-to-back this was quite the test. It's something I've only tried once before; in 2012 I hopped straight from a Pacific sail to ride a Bikecar across the American South with just a two week gap in between, which offered just enough time to stand up paddle the Wolf River in 7 days.
But this year's combo was more testing, not least because I'd been off this endurance stuff for the best part of a year and the culprit - my back and its formerly damaged disc - had to stand up and be counted.
I decided this would best be done by sitting down in two consecutive (and effortlessly comfortable) seats.
And now, not only is the aching and the numbness going, but I wake up in the morning without holding my back any more. Which means these two journeys, numbers 8 and 9 in Expedition1000, were a success across the board.
It'll be a while before Jamie finds the time to create what will no doubt be an artistic take on our Whike journey across the Atacama Desert, but I really hope you enjoy Ben Sadd's calm and pleasant short film about my most recent journey, which really was as lovely as it appears to be in this beautifully shot film.
If this film only serves to whet your appetite, here are all the short videos I made on my ICE Trike, you won't have to scroll down too far to find a gallery of Instagram stills from the trip, and please do visit the Whike and ICE Trikes websites to check out some awesome-looking (and very fun) three-wheeled riding machines.
Signing out, a formerly weary (and now just a bit sniffly) man,