Bridge to Paraguay

August 20th 2010
Ah, the romance of train travel. Many had warned me to take the faster 13-hour, luxurious bus ride replete with wine and meals, from Buenos Aires to its terminus in Posadas. But no, I needed to stretch my little pot of gold, so that it would last three years. At 11 pm, the impressively named, but quite ancient Gran Capitan, packed to the gills, chugged off on its supposed 24-hour journey to Pos ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more

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Tara Cloud

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I´m a one-way ticket, slow traveler, relishing the freedom of the open road and trusting serendipity to guide my journey. When I was younger, I used to travel for a year at a time. Then a few years ago, I roamed Europe and North Africa for three and a half years and liked that even better. On August 1st, 2010, I left my peaceful Mission Canyon paradise in Santa Barbara's mellow summer and emerged from a couple of planes a day and a world later in the teeming, sub-zero streets of Buenos Aires´winter. Now, with the Andes, Amazon and Galapagos between here and home, will three years be enou... full info

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