Prep Part 1 - Farewell to Uruguay

“The plan” calls for a few days prep before covering a couple of thousand kms West towards the Andes where the trip starts in earnest. We get to have a little time in Montevideo where the Army kindly puts on a parade for Lisa, pick up the Troopy and, after bypassing it three previous times, we finally visit the UNESCO World Heritage site at Fray Bentos. One of the handful of industrial sites that have made the UNESCO list, at its peak the Fray Bentos meat processing facility delivered meat products to all corners of the world. Unfortunately, the creator of OXO cubes and spam in a can, folded in the 1970s and what remains is an eerie derelict.Meer informatie