Ed Culberson, Obsessions Die Hard: Motorcycling the Pan-American Highway’s Jungle Gap (1966) George Meegan, The Longest Walk (1988) Russell Braddon, The Hundred Days of Darien (1974) John Blashford-Snell, Something Lost Behind the Ranges (1994) Ian Hibell, Into the Remote Places (1984)...
5 days solo crossing the infamous Darien Jungle Got lots of questions about the Pan-Am like‘What is it like to Cross Cross The Darien Gap?’We’ve answered a lot of questions in ourAdventure ExpertsSeries with HippieVanMan who drove the Pan-American Highway solo. If that isn’t enough...
Minding the Gap: Pan-Americanism's Highway, American Environmentalism, and Remembering the Failure to Close the Darien Gap The Pan-American Highway, proposed in 1923, was Pan-Americanism's most publicized idea, and the dream of a hemispheric highway inspired automotive adventurers from Canada to...
Colombia-Panama Plan to Build Rain Forest Road Draws Fire : Latin America: Controversial project would span the 60-mile Darien Gap, the only missing segment in the 16,000-mile Pan-American Highway linking Alaska to Chile. Environmentalists and native peoples object. BOGOTA, Colombia —Spurred ...
The Dalton Highway and Deadhorse We finally were reasonably assured of the Darien Gap crossing, so we set the start for August 16th, 8:30am local time. That meant that we had about 35 hours till the start, so we left Fairbanks around midnight to have some time to rest in Deadhorse....
Driving the Pan-American Highway is the tire-testing, gas-guzzling road trip of dreams. Here's what you need to know.
The highway started at the Mexican border and eventually reached somewhere south of Santiago in Chile. It was a vote-buying gimmick by the Americans to fund allies, but it also created an essential spine road through Central America to the Darien Gap and along the west coast of South ...
Minding the Gap: Pan-Americanism's Highway, American Environmentalism, and Remembering the Failure to Close the Darien Gap The Pan-American Highway, proposed in 1923, was Pan-Americanism's most publicized idea, and the dream of a hemispheric highway inspired automotive adventurers from Canada to...
Pan-American Highway is network of highways connecting North America and South America. The whole system extends from Alaska and Canada to Chile, Brazil, and the southern tip of Argentina.