See Robert and Mira's Future

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.

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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.