Once Upon a Continent

If Susanna Janssen had known that she would fall into a cannibal-size soup pot in Peru, risk losing toes and fingers while traveling by train through the high Andes, and high-jump her way out of a marriage proposal in a Bolivian discotheque, she might have had a momentary second thought. But she drank yerba mate with the gauchos in Argentina, visited Machu Picchu in timeless silence with only six other tourists, downed shots of firewater with gravediggers in Ecuador, sailed the Galápagos Islands long before crowds of tourists discovered them, and met a volcano in Patagonia that changed her life.

Susanna’s recounting of the wonders, worries, and wows of her travel adventures is laced with excitement, tinged with pathos, and spiced with humor. Once Upon a Continent shares her cultural and deeply personal experiences of South America etched through four months of charting the unknown.