Everything is terrifying—how close we are to the edge, the skid marks on the dirt, incoming traffic with massive trucks, the complete silence as we’re all counting the switchbacks.
Posts tagged On the Move
Boats, planes, trains and border crossings—because getting there is part of the story.
My Austral Líneas Aéreas Experience on the Buenos Aires-Mendoza Flight
Why Mendoza? Because it’s across the country, on the east side of the Andes, close to Chile. Because I found a cheap hotel. Because I found a great plane ticket that saves me a 1,000-kilometre bus trip across the country.
The São Paulo-Buenos Aires Flight is Already a Culture Shock
Don’t ask why I’m flying Qatar Airways from São Paulo to Buenos Aires—it doesn’t make much sense to me either.
Adventure of the Day, São Paulo-Rio de Janeiro by Bus
The next day, we took the subway to the Terminal Rodoviário do Tietê, São Paulo’s bus terminal. Fuck. It did look like the Guangdong train station before Chinese New Year.
Cold and Confused Back in Canada
A little part of me still believes that if I try hard enough, Canada is the place to be for dreams to come true.
I’ll bite. I’ll give it another shot.
A Breathtaking Seven-Hour Bus Trip Across the Andes
Article views: 6,287 Driving distance between Mendoza, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile? Only 370 kilometres. Travel time? Between seven and nine hours. This is what happens when, inconveniently, the…