In the year 2000 Candelaria and Herman Zapp took a vintage car and set off around the world.
Twenty two years later they came home with four children after visiting 102 countries. Two years ago they bought this plot of land outside Luján one hour from Buenos Aires and opened a campground for travelers, for people like us.
It rained like hell Wednesday night and Thursday dawned cold and gray and bleak and windy so I started a short walk with Rusty headed toward the communal room in the middle of the campground where I found the owners doing things. They paused in their work and posed easily for my camera because they did that frequently I’m sure as they traveled. BBC Northern Ireland:
I was fascinated by the choice of vehicle, a 1928 Graham Paige…
…but my rather thoughtless question “Why” simply elicited the rote reply because it’s easy to fix. I had hoped for a family history, a sentimental attachment, something like that. I suppose an old car is a talking point on the road, a way to attract attention, to engage locals. Unlike the anonymity of the Promaster which, though it is not sold here is identical from the outside to the widely sold Fiat Ducato upon which the Promaster is based.
I suppose if your travel plans include meeting people, staying with them and that sort of thing an eccentric vehicle helps.
A man of my mechanical ineptitude would not get very far I fear on wooden wheels. 
Later Herman took a break from digging a ditch and expanded on the story. He and Candelaria are childhood sweethearts and from when they got married they decided they wanted to make a trip. They settled on driving to Alaska as a goal. A friend told Herman, who knew nothing about cars, that he had an antique for sake and Herman, an incurable romantic, decided that was just the right car for the journey. 
They bought the car, packed and left. Thirty miles from home a wooden wheel started to fall apart and a mechanic pointed out he wasn’t a carpenter and couldn’t repair so he told them to go see a nearby blacksmith. 
The blacksmith showed him how to keep the wooden wheels running and Herman found the simple mechanical systems of the car appealed to him.
And now they are creating a campground and gathering place to attract travelers. 
Hernan is now planning a sailboat journey. Candekaria has no interest and will stay here while he goes north, buys a cheap boat with no knowledge of sailing and takes off. It is, he says, his dream. We never regret having sailed in our youth as we frequently see overland travelers driving while dreaming of sailing. We scratched that itch.
We’re leaving today and moving closer to Buenos Aires where I will stay while Layne flies to Brazil to go jaguar hunting with friends from Florida. 
Luckily they also published their book in English in an electronic edition as well.
Candelaria doing things in the common room.
