Goodreads asked Kim MacQuarrie:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Kim MacQuarrie I lived in Peru for four years and then spent probably another year making documentary films down there for television. During that time, I traveled to most South American countries. But I always had in the back of my mind the idea of one day traveling from Colombia in the North all of the way down to the tip of the continent, to Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, following the spine of the Andes. So I finally pitched that idea to my agent, she pitched it to my publisher and, voila, I got to fulfill that dream....4,300 miles worth of it--it was a great experience.

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