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Life is to enjoy (La Vida es para gozarla)
Wow, it feels good to be solo on the beach. The breeze flows steadily from the southeast; it's beautiful, with ...
Hella Stealing from our Roommate's Ghost
Getting off the plane Alisa and I couldn’t have been more relieved; we had 5 months of language learning to ...
Back in America
Last night I returned to Kentucky after over twenty-four hours of traveling. It was a very long journey from Taiwan ...
Recommendation in Antigua
I have to give a recommendation to all you budget travelers on the Mayan trail coming through Antigua Guatemala to ...
Thoughts from Guatemala
Over the last several days I have been saving up lots of things to write about, and am only now ...
Tuk Tuks: the most awesome public transportation ever!
Tuk Tuks: the most awesome public transportation ever! From the time I arrived in the Quiché District town of Uspantán ...
Who's ''American'' anyway?
I was eating brunch recently when an Argentine friend of a friend asked me a question. He wanted to know ...
Exchanging ideas.
This is interesting: An important piece of Latin American literature has just passed into the hands of Barack Obama. Yesterday ...
The power of mate.
Today I'd like to write about something wonderful and purely Argentine: El Mate. In Argentina, mate is not just a ...
Argentina and la crisis
It's no secret that the economic crisis in the U.S. is being felt around the world, and spiraling economic problems ...
Disco nap, I love you.
In BA, I've learned that nothing gets kickin' at ''night'' until at least 1 am. In the absence of something ...
No hay monedas -- Buenos Aires in the clutches of a coin shortage.
Life is about to change in Buenos Aires. The government recently announced something big: In the next 90 days, it ...
Buenos Aires, the city you hate to love.
When I arrived in Buenos Aires in September of last year I had no plan. I had no job, no ...
