There is no way to summarize Latin America in a list. I want to say that upfront, because the wonder that is Central and South America resists containment. It’s too alive, too layered, too full of the kind of experiences that don’t translate cleanly into words. But these ten are the ones that I find […]
May 6, 2026

There is a moment, sometime in the first few hours of your first camping festival, where you realize you’ve just walked into a whole new world. You’ve just pulled into the security line, strangers walking past your car are dressed like hippies or in costumes or not wearing much at all, and everyone looks like […]
April 29, 2026

There is a version of me somewhere in South America still.
She’s on a bus with no signal and a window full of Andean sky, thinking she’s just traveling. She doesn’t know yet what’s coming.
Eight months is long enough to forget who you were when you arrived.
And I know this because I’ve tried to remember.
April 23, 2026

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