Dear Uruguay,

I´ll miss you. Heartfelt and sweetly, I´ll miss you. Look, it´s not up to me. My bud, Andy, just landed his Brazilian visa to finally pass on through to the last step and so we must. This dispatch comes from right at the border --

-- Brazil and its Portuguese on the left, you with your lilting Spanish on the right. And, sorry, we´re turning left here. That´s life so I better get on it with it. You´ll linger though: all those clean cities filled with courteous people, all those well-kempt roads filled with courteous drivers, your vast tracts of untainted shore, watching errands ran upon horse and cart even though the car is gassed up and ready back in the garage. And of course those beach bonfires. Yep, I´ll miss you. Again, thanks. I am Sincerely yours, IPE