A closer look
Pan-American Highway holds the Guinness World Record for the longest motorable road, stretching roughly nineteen thousand miles from Alaska down to the tip of Argentina. The only interruption in this colossal asphalt ribbon is the Darién Gap, a sixty-mile stretch of impenetrable rainforest and swampland between Panama and Colombia that has defeated every attempt at roadbuilding. If you actually tried to drive the entire route, you would traverse diverse ecosystems, multiple climate zones, and a terrifying array of border crossings. It is the ultimate road trip fantasy for people who severely underestimate how much they will hate being trapped in a car with their spouse by the time they reach Guatemala
