For Americans who want to take a trip, Europe has long held the big glamour spots. The beaches of the French Riviera, the ski chalets of the Swiss Alps, the promenades of Paris, the island-hopping of Greece. It doesn’t matter if you’re sweating in a crowd, taking the one millionth hideously back-lit snapshot in front of the Colosseum — all your friends will remember is that you’re the one who got to go to Italy this year. People go to Europe to see, yes. But undoubtedly, they also go to be seen.
The Americas, by contrast, are where you go when you want to disappear. Hell, just ask Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When they wanted to lay low, those guys took their South American getaway all the way to Bolivia.