The Art of South American Patience
June 14th 2008 Five days in, and my long-planned South American cycling trip was suffering from a notable absence of actual cycling. My bike was still in the box that had brought it to Santiago from London, and I was becoming increasingly frustrated with being stranded in the Chilean capital.
My plan to take one of the numerous buses that climb up over the Andes to the Argentinian city of Mendoza, my intended s
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