It's Not the How or the What but the Who

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Second Chances

Ricardo Garay, known by everyone for his last name as “Garay,” is the gaucho we hired to manage our ranch in Patagonia back in 2000, right after we bought it. Short, fit, and slim, tough, alert, and hardworking, he came highly recommended by two people: a farm broker who had lived his whole life in the area and another local who helped us with the initial purchase and takeover of the property. This was an important decision. Our ranch sits in a part of Patagonia that is almost one thousand miles from our home in Buenos Aires, with no communication, so I needed someone I could trust. And Garay seemed to fit the bill. He would start every day before dawn and ride his horse up the Andes through the night, if needed, to check ...