"BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion" (pbs) 02/18/2015 at 17:15 • Filed to: None

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Turns out you can go from the Atlantic to the Pacific through 4 south american countries in 3 days. I don't recommend that you do it, unless you enjoy driving over 12 hours per day for three days, then all over again in the way back, but you totally can. Carspotting in Argentina is awesome though, Novas are a recurring sight in both two and four doors form, and Falcons are absolutely everywhere. Like, you're balls deep in the arid, less hospitable portions of the Andes, and suddenly an old Falcon scoots by, giving zero fucks to the lack of life around it.

Now, we turn around and go back...

davedave1111 > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 02/18/2015 at 17:25

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I love the way most oppo posts have more detail about something mundane like going to the shops. Your epic road trip gets a single paragraph...

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > davedave1111 02/18/2015 at 22:49

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Well, I'm not sure what to say about it... it went by so fast! :p

But the wide variety of landscapes between the two extremes is simply mind blowing. I mean, you leave Brazil amidst the wide open and permanently cloudy swampland known as Taim, getting to Uruguay's wide open fields, before turning north, deep into an Argentina that looks more like straight out of an african Savannah. On the way to Santa Fe, you drive through the tunnel under the Parana riverbed, and, after San Francisco, where you'll probably have lost track of any tourist activity save for your own lone self, it's all increasingly rich farms and ranches and rural communities 20 miles from each other on dual carriageways, until you get to San Luis and drive over 50 miles in a straight line through the Salt Pans to Mendoza. Leaving Mendoza, you come across vineyards and wineries, and eventually start climbing the long trek up the Andes, with its mind blowing vistas and dry, cold winds. By the time you get to the chilean border, you'll probably have faced a bit of snow or hail, and going down the Caracoles, you'll find yourself in hot, arid mountain slopes, not unlike the California we see in movies, which will stay with you until you get to the shore.

It's an incredible trip, but there's just too much to do in only three days. You absolutely have to stop to eat in a traditional restaurant in Uruguay, and enjoy the numerous bars and churrascarias scattered around the Argentinian nights, specially during the summer, where people stay out until well after midnight, for example.

pip bip - choose Corrour > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 02/19/2015 at 02:35

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any pics?

davedave1111 > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 02/19/2015 at 12:18

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It sounds completely awesome. Did you grab some pics as well? You'll have to do a full write-up when you get home :)

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > davedave1111 02/19/2015 at 17:29

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I did, but with limited wi fi from hotels and no PC to upload them to, I'll have to wait till I'm back home to put them up... Not too many car pictures though, as I was driving most of the times I saw one. I wrote down where I found some of them though, so I'll try stopping on the way back, if I take the same route.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/19/2015 at 17:30

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Yup, but I won't be able to post them till I'm back home, since I don't have a computer to upload them to.

davedave1111 > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 02/19/2015 at 17:35

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It's a road trip, you should have plenty to show us apart from cars :)