Our team of four were very eager to visit the popular Argentinian wine region of Mendoza and sample some of the prized Malbec wines that the hundreds of wineries offer. We arrived in the Valparaiso Chile bus terminal in the morning ready to set off to Argentina but quickly realized that the buses were all full and the rest had already left. Serves us right for not checking ahead! Instead, we elected to push on to a small town named Los Andes, which was en route t...

After traveling 4 hours by bus, followed by a 7 hour wait in the Quito Airport, followed by a flight back to Guayaquil Ecuador, followed by a flight to Santiago, we finally arrived in Buenos Aires... and it only took 25 hours! Our trip started with an interesting event. Just as we were about to board our LAN flight Cameron`s name was being called by the flight attendents. All they would say is "you have to go with the policia". With thoughts of ´brok...