Bad Roads

“Bad roads bring good people.” – Mama Espinoza.

That’s the most famous quote from the most famous woman of Baja California, a land of some pretty bad roads.

Ruta 40 (Route 40) in Argentina is a long, and in many places, at least by urban standards, bad road.

By one measure it is 4,332 kilometers / 2,692 miles long, most of it across the steppes along the eastern flank of the Andes.

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