Prior to my latest adventure in Argentina and Antarctica, I never once daydreamed about traveling the Pan-American Highway, which runs from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America. It is 17,848 kilometers or about 11,100 miles* (don't you appreciate how I always convert the metric system for you?). Now I find that lots of people make that journey--some by automobile, a surprising number by bicycle and some on foot (really).
Even when I'm power daydreaming, I don't really imagine myself walking 11,100 miles through mountains and jungles and swamps and deserts and forests. (O.K., I did imagine it, but my fictional self quickly dismissed the idea as too hard for my real self).
Still, if I had, this is what I would have seen at the end of the journey.
Prettier than I could have daydreamed.
*estimates of the "real" road distance of the Pan-American highway vary so widely that I just used the as-the-crow-flies distance from the sign. If I wasn't just daydreaming, I would have to be more accurate.
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2 comments:
I daydream a lot also. But I've found that if you don't follow your dreams now, when will you? The worst thing in life is to be lying on your deathbed saying "I wish I had."
Just a geography geek chiming in with more useless info- There is a gap of a couple hundred miles in Northern Columbia called The Darien Gap. It's a fascinating story!
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