Here it is. But Robert's choice, The Cordillera Blanca, Peru.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/garden/a-second-home-in-the-andes-worth-the-4300-mile-trek.html?src=dayp&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/06/06/garden/20130606-ECU.html#
From the New York Times
CAÑAR, Ecuador — Most people aren’t willing to drive more than a few hours to get to a second home in the country.
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
But Judy Blankenship and Michael Jenkins leave their house in Portland,
Ore., and travel 4,300 miles — a two-day trip that usually involves
three flights and one miserable bus ride that takes about five hours but
feels more like a week — to a ragged town high in the Andes.
Their house here has no television, no dishwasher and no heat, apart
from what is produced by the adobe hearth in the living room. The crazy
weather can’t be counted on, the thin air causes all sorts of bodily
havoc, they don’t have a car and the few friends willing to make the
arduous journey to visit find there is almost nothing to do once they
arrive.
Still, Mr. Jenkins, a contractor, and his wife, a photographer and
journalist, have been coming here for nearly a quarter-century and have
settled into a routine, arriving in January, like exotic migratory
birds, and sticking around through June. Even their neighbors in this
small town can’t quite figure out why.
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