num_pages: 350
description: Spanning four seasons ten countries three teaching jobs and countless buses Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America chronicles Kate McCahills solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language romance culture service and homesickness she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel is not a path to love but a route to meaningful work rare inspiration and profound self-discovery. Following the route Paul Theroux outlined in his 1979 travelogue The Old Patagonian Express McCahill transports the reader from a classroom in a rugged Quito barrio to a dingy rented room in an El Salvadorian brothel and from the storied neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to the heights the Peruvian Andes. A testament to courage solitude and the rewards of taking risks Patagonian Road proves that discovery clarity and simplicity remain possible in the 21st century and that travel holds an enduring capacity to transform.
language: English
title: Patagonian Road: A Year Alone Through Latin America
publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project