Imagine a scene in the Old West. The Iron Horse has just deposited its load of passengers at some dust ridden town along the frontier. As it pulls away you see the greenhorn, or tenderfoot, standing in the middle of an empty street looking around in bemusement as he tries to orientate himself to this new location. Nothing looks the same; everyone is dressed differently and the houses are certainly not a patch on what he encountered in New York. In fact, there is only one building: the train station... So he stands there in bemusement, surrounded by his ornate luggage watching the decidedly un-ornate country folk walking by and ignoring him. Now, instead of the train, imagine an Andesmar coach, and rather than just a single tenderfoot, picture about thirty gringo backpackers, all with the
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