saving patagonia ~ we’ve got to draw some lines in the sand, folks
travel is a celebration of everything on the planet, all it’s quirky weirdness and unexpected charms. travel opens eyes to other ways of life, times gone by or things to come. travel brings us closer together. to travel is to love the world, passionately. in this way, tourism done right can help save the world, because to love this world passionately you have to devote at least some portion of your time, energy or money to saving it. everyone has a favorite place, and i’m lucky to live in one of mine. there is another place, though, that i can’t stop thinking about: patagonia. i revel in the fact that there is a place still so pristine in the world, and i obsess over what i can do to save it from the mines, dams and development that would turn it from a paradise into products. let’s draw a line in sand in patagonia, right…here.
