Uruguay: Discuss

Uruguay: la República Oriental del Uruguay
Deleware of South America, borderland of good roads, antique cars in use, roadside squatters and cattle.

Means: River of the painted bird.

Land without landlines, where an estancia owner might have satellite, a landing strip and more cattle than a small nation, but no internet access.

Where the homestead estancias of the wealthy are thickly built of stone, turned inwards onto a central courtyard and well, better able to "withstand a siege."

Driving the 3 hours through unsettled countryside (like a country abandonned) to the airport, R observes:

"I've been to one country with less traffic. Malawi."

C