Really drives home the blessing of air travel. LATAM offers the same route for about the same price, 5 hours instead of 118.
I assume the author just had nothing better to do which is fine, but great to have the other option.
I think you didn't get the point of the article.
'nothing better to do' is where all of life's greatest surprises are hiding.
when traveling and especially backpacking, the road and the experiences and people you meet along is the goal, not tackling a checklist of stuff internet/llms has given you as must-see.
And what's the price if you want to stop at all 12 cities listed there?