This essay was originally published in 2006 at the now-defunct InverseOnline, a website dedicated to all things South American. Barranquilla...

My relationship with the City of Light was not love at first sight. The first time I laid eyes on the French capital was in March of 2004, ...

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According to the short bio in the back of his best-selling "self-help" tome, The Four-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, an...

When I left the states for South America in 2005, I was definitely not a patriotic person. I mean, 200 years of slavery, a hundred years of ...

Please send prayers/good energy out to the brothers and sisters in the Caribbean, especially in Haiti, the DR, and Cuba, who've been rav...

...last summer on the beach in Rio de Janeiro, butchering the beautiful Portuguese lyrics to Tom Jobim 's iconic "Samba do Avião...