Category: Travel (All)
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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 Costa Rica?
I have never prepared less for an international trip than this one. I’ve done more research to go out of state than I did for Costa Rica. The idea I had in my mind was that Costa Rica is a country whose economy is built on tourism so it must be an insular experience built…
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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…
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Why Playa Del Carmen?
Playa Del Carmen is a weird mix. It’s a melting pot of Cancun spring breakers, citizens of the world en route to Tolum, wearers of cargo shorts in every shade from light tan to dark olive going on cultural excursions to Mayan Ruins, the adventurous looking to scuba dive off the island of Cozumel (or…
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Why Mexico City? (Part Two)
What am I talking about? Get caught up on part one. El Mundial “A month-long super bowl until Mexico loses in the second round like they always do.” This was the first and best description of experiencing the World Cup in Mexico that I have heard. Prior to this year, like most Americans, I had…
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Why Romeo Santos?
From middle school until the end of college, I was fiercely committed to being an uneducated but passionate music snob. If it was on the radio, it wasn’t good music. It was part of my core identity for a long time and carried me most strongly during the years immediately after high school. I never…