Category: North America
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Miami, FL // Why do I even want community anyway?
It didn’t feel like it at the time, but after moving to Miami I can confidently say that Atlanta was a soft landing to life in the south. The two cities are wildly different from each other, but both provide a sense of living in a “bubble.” They are both far more liberal and diverse…
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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico// Why would they care?
I’m not usually one to compliment the United States. My default state of being really lends itself to complaining and criticizing. However, one grand exception is how much I truly appreciate the abundance and variety of beauty in the natural landscape of the US. Right before moving to Mexico, I was spending a lot of…
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Key West, Florida // Why a truly minor problem?
I hated the feeling I was having. I felt frustrated and irritated by a slight inconvenience. But it does happen to all of us, sooner or later. These minor problems from our daily lives start to add up. You merge onto the highway and pick a lane and it is the wrong lane. Cars pass…
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Mexico City, Mexico // Why a travel guide?
The original concept for this blog was to act as an actual guide for fellow travelers, which then quickly devolved into an account of my personal musings while traveling more than anything else. Hopefully that is still useful on some level to someone out there, but upon reviewing some of my earliest posts, I decide…
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Atlanta, GA // Why have I been gone?
Hello, and thank you for reading! After a long and unplanned hiatus, I am excited to be dedicating time to the project again. This blog was not easy to come back to. It meant acknowledging that I had given up on it, when I never meant to stop writing. I actually wrote the title for…
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Why Atlanta?
January is supposed to be the month of defining your priorities. Making goals and actually completing steps to achieve them. Doing more of what matters. Getting things done. Side #hustling harder than ever before. Creating and moving. So why haven’t I been writing? Because I have been moving back to the US. It took me…
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Michoacán // Why say goodbye ?
I remember when my grandfather died. I was young and it was my first close experience with death. I remember telling myself I wasn’t going to cry and then crying towards the very end of the funeral service, surrounded by family that was also crying. I remember going up to the casket and touching his…
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Why San Miguel El Alto?
Mexico is an extra country. It reverberates with an intensity that leaves me exasperated and delighted in turn. I walked around with blinders on for the first six months. It’s such an overwhelming experience that if I stopped to try to take everything in, I would barely be able to see where I was going.…
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Why am I glad I left the United States?
“Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.” -William S Burroughs, great American writer who used his status to have sex with much younger men but that’s not what we’re here to talk about right now, ok? One of the many good things about living outside of…
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Why chiSLANGo?
Learning a new language is embarrassing. I took Spanish in high school and college but I really didn’t get it. And while I can be quick on some things, the idea of verb conjugation itself took me about two years. So, as you can imagine, it was an uphill battle. In the months leading up…