[hanamizu]

Darien Gap is one of the most dangerous places in the western hemisphere.

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When I was a lad in the 50s, My Weekly Reader promised that we’d soon be able to drive from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on the Pan-Am Highway. There is still no highway from South America to Panama (which before 1903 was considered to be South America since it was a part of Columbia).

[Rebelbase]

IIRC, the missing stretch of the Pan American Highway in the Darian Gap has not been completed because of the illegal migration that would occur into Central America and beyond.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

A married couple made that drive in an amphibious jeep back in the 50s, and wrote the book 20,000 Miles South about the trip. It’s years since I read it, so I don’t remember if they had to go by train or boat to get past the Darien Gap. I do remember that they decided not to try to take their vehicle out into the ocean because of weather.

[KC_Conspirator]

When I was a lad in the 50s, My Weekly Reader promised that we’d soon be able to drive from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on the Pan-Am Highway. There is still no highway from South America to Panama (which before 1903 was considered to be South America since it was a part of Columbia).

Thats funny as hell.