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part of the BootsnAll Indie Travel Challenge Project<\/a><\/p>\n

For week 14 of the Indie Travel Challenge, we want to hear your best Latin America transportation stories \u2013 and you get to decide what \u201cbest\u201d means. Whether you were served champagne on an overnight bus ride or feared for your life as you biked along a dodgy trail on a steep cliff, we want to hear about it! Pictures are, of course, encouraged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/em>i don’t have a lot of central\/south america travel under my belt — just the two countries below, but each trip had its own special “out and about” experience.<\/p>\n

ATVing Around Puerto Vallarta<\/h3>\n
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Posing in San Sebasti\u00e1n after riding down those dirty and dusty trails<\/p><\/div>\n

in 2008, a bunch of us went to puerto vallarta, and my brother and cousin, who had gone ATVing in the greek isles, wanted to go out for a ride again. none of the other four of us had even been before, but i was totally game. \u00a0not ones to half-ass anything, we chose an intermediate level tour that had previous experience riding an ATV as a prerequisite. i can’t in good conscience recommend doing this, since they impose such requirements for a reason, but we put on our game faces and faked it until we made it.<\/p>\n

we signed our lives away, got a quick introduction to how to to work an ATV, and were off! it was quite jerky pulling out of the ATV offices but i think we managed quite well (no [hard] crashes). the leader took us through the sierra madre mountains until we got to the tiny town of san sebasti\u00e1n del oeste<\/a>\u00a0(and the four of us n00bs, being uhh, complete n00bs, failed exquisitely in the tougher parts; he had to drive our vehicles for us several times). by now, i think he caught on that we probably would have taken forever to go off-road back to PV (we were already an hour or two late arriving in sebasti\u00e1n\u00a0for lunch), so we took the highway instead. i don’t remember why, but i was hecka scared; i kept thinking i was going to lose control of my ATV and go plummeting off the side of the winding mountain road<\/a>. i would have felt better going over dusty and rocky backcountry terrain!<\/p>\n

on the way to san sebasti\u00e1n we stopped by a small ranch house to use the facilities and get some refreshments. there were no inhabitants except for a bunch of poultry — i’d never been so close to (live) fowl before!<\/p>\n

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we finally made it back (despite my starting to get a flat tire, but by this point we were in town already), and i\u00a0loved it so much i went on another ATV ride\u00a0in cambodia<\/a>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n

Subway Line A, Buenos Aires<\/h3>\n

i am a public transportation, especially subway, fanatic. i had read that there were vintage subway cars on l\u00ednea A<\/a> of the subte, and yes, i took a ride to nowhere and back \u00a0just to ride in them. i mean, really. wood interiors? subdued lighting? manual doors? you could just hear some old-timey jazz music playing! heritage cars ftw.<\/p>\n

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Riding in a La Brugeoise car<\/p><\/div>\n

they are the oldest running metro cars in commercial service, dating back to the subway’s opening in 1913. unfortunately, research also shows that these la brugeoise<\/a> cars are starting to be phased out of service, so get your ride on while you can! (if not, i found a video on youtube<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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