Unlost: Roaming through South America on a Spontaneous Journey

Life doesnt come with a roadmapAnd this is not a guidebookCORY MORTENSEN rode his bike from Chaska Minnesota to California. The experience ultimately changed his perspective on how life could be lived. So rather than returning home after his adventure-back to the life unwanted-and equipped with absolutely no plan and nothing tying him down he makes a simple phone call to quit his career and decides to hitchhike south along the Pacific Coast Highway. Destination unknown. Sounds like a pretty good idea.One minute Im sitting in a cubicle and the next Im haggling over a room in the Andes in a location of the world I never even knew existed.Where does a guy go when he has no place to be? Passport tent sleeping bag and a favorite pair of Chaco sandals-enough gear for meandering from the Mexican border to the southern tip of South America right?Humor ■ Insight ■ Adventure ■ Gratitude ■ PeaceForty-hour bus rides Mayan Ruins five-dollar tattoos mountain biking down the Road of Death para-gliding the mountains of Mérida trekking the Patagonian Andes. Spectacular sights strange foods unfamiliar smells interesting people-and what would a trip like this be without a little dynamite?