Wayne Bernhardson first visited Buenos Aires in 1981, during a military dictatorship, and he has stuck with the Argentine capital through the good times and bad. Returning repeatedly to broaden his knowledge of both the city and the country in general, he fits in well enough that porteños constantly stop him in the street to ask for directions. He owns an apartment in Buenos Aires, near the Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays in Palermo, and spends four to five months in South America every year.

Wayne earned a PhD in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, but abandoned academia for a perpetual Latin American road trip that many university faculty envy. He is the author of Moon Handbooks to Argentina, Chile, and Patagonia, and has written for magazines and newspapers including Trips, the San Francisco Chronicle, the American Geographical Society's Focus, Business Traveler, Dupont Registry Tampa Bay, Postcards, National Geographic Traveler, Latin Trade, and Travel Holiday. He often gives slide lectures on destinations he covers in his books.

When not in South America, Wayne resides in Oakland, California with his wife, María Laura Massolo, their daughter, Clio Bernhardson-Massolo, and their Alaskan malamute, Malbec (named for Argentina's signature red wine). He can be reached directly by email at southerncone [at] mac [dot] com or through his website, www.southernconetravel.com. Read more about Wayne’s travels on his Moon Over South America blog on Moon.com.