Travel Stories: Our easiest most challenging trip ever—Argentina to Scotland (E23)

From Sumplace New: The Long-Term Travel Podcast

Nearly four days of travel: 16.5-hour car ride, 32.5-hour layover, 13.5-hour flight, 13-hour layover, 2-hour flight. It absolutely could have been a royal pain in the ass (but only the car ride was a literal pain in the ass). After a ton of research and preparation, we knew we did everything possible to make our journey from Bariloche to Buenos Aires to Amsterdam to Edinburgh as stress-free as possible. The rest was in the hands of the travel gods — would we stay healthy before leaving Argentina, would we be stopped by Argentina province police during our drive, would we get dinged for being in Argentina well beyond the 90-day tourist visa limit (172 days!), would our flights be on time, would we sleep at all? Long story short: It went off without a hitch. Save for the bumpy car ride, at times, it couldn't have been a smoother journey. Less people traveling sure helped, but we also prepared ourselves mentally in case we needed to adapt. The only adapting we had to do was sleeping in a Schiphol Airport micro hotel since we were exhausted after our overnight flight. What did we learn? What did we eat? What did we watch? What do we miss? What do we look forward to? All that and more in episode 23 of From Sumplace New.
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Credits:
Intro/Outro Music: The World at Large by Daniel O'Connor
Intro VO: Laura Welsh