Route 40
Topic: Route 40
In-between barrenness. A lifetime experience.

The time each one of us has in this planet is relatively short, compared to the history of this universe. The duration of our existence is what we call life, the most precious gift of all. Birth initiates this journey of growth, changes, transformations and understanding. A Spanish poet once said is by walking roads are made, but he said nothing about how is that we do it, nor he specified the easiness of difficulty to build it or go through it.

We can say that Route 40 of our beautiful Argentina, is the path nature made by walking; beginning in the rocky, virgin, arid Puna, North Argentina of Jujuy, passing
thru the flora of San Juan, the vineyards of Mendoza, crossing the woods of Neuquen along the National Parks of Chubut and the frozen table-lands of Santa Cruz, to finish at one of the most southern places of our planet: Rio Gallegos.

This route is both all and nothing at the same time. It’s dessert and forest, plain and mountain; a slide to descend, experience and understand Argentina. During this long journey, the amazing Cordillera de Los Andes stands by our side from beginning to end, as a best friend who’s there good. Route 40 is life, because to live be to begin in nature, feel, and love, enjoy, experience and return to it unite forever. Its life we said, and life in itself contains death, which does not mean not-life, but life well lived, trodden past, present yesterday, up and down feeling, emotion, and experience roads.

At the age of 50 one still has roads to walk, things to know, feelings to experience, life to live, although the walked roads, experienced feelings, life lived… Half way down the road of life, in the precise limit between memories and dreams. This is what life’s all about. This is the reason of this journey along Route 40, because its marvel is our marvel, its landscapes a mirror of our own; because in it we recognize ourselves.


Route / Ruta 40
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