I have a very simple way of looking for hidden gems when traveling: I open a map, filter out five-star hotels in the middle of nowhere and ask chat gpt, what’s good about these places? That’s how I found the best contemporary art museum on the continent, the…

The map makes it look like Buenos Aires is on the ocean, but in fact there is a brown river called La Plata, and the waves and beautiful water are 400 kilometers away. A rare occurrence on the Argentine highway: exactly halfway along the route there is somewhere…

I’m driving quietly through the vineyards in Argentina’s Mendoza Mountains, looking at museums, and then there it is, short as a morse code telegram of news: whales have come to Valdes. Tchk 🐳 Why would whales come anywhere? It turns out that baby whales are scared to swim…