
The Island I Never Reached
Why I wanted to go Plain curiosity, mostly. Look at a map of the South Atlantic and the thing is absurd. There is an archipelago sitting just off the Argentine coast, close enough to feel like part of the geography,…

Why I wanted to go Plain curiosity, mostly. Look at a map of the South Atlantic and the thing is absurd. There is an archipelago sitting just off the Argentine coast, close enough to feel like part of the geography,…

It was Thursday, September 4th. I had Tesla’s robotaxi launch open on one screen and Buenos Aires on the other. That second screen is a habit I never dropped. I lived in the city from 2017 to 2025, and I…