While most travelers went from wine-soaked, mellow Mendoza to colonial Cordoba on an overnight bus, it took me a month. But why rush when there were such sweet tidbits along the way--ancient, end-of-the-road mountain towns, rivers to rock-hop, and gorges to explore? Slow travel, indeed. I'd spent long lazy months in the tourist mecca of Mendoza, , trading English lessons for my dorm bed. However, the day my once tranquil, 8-person dorm was full of loud, drunk, late-night Argentines and noisy, early-leaving Norwegians, I decided to leave. San Luis For the first time ever, I caught a taxi to the bus station. Somehow I'd accumulated too much stuff to walk--danger. I boarded the daily bus for the 4.5 hour ride through boring, flat desert and then promising mountains to the provincial capital, San Luis, where I'd
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