Be Open to Randomness

My friend, David Cohen has a saying, “be open to randomness.”

One day David walked into a 10 minute meeting with venture capitalist, Brad Feld who kept a few hours a week open specifically for what he called “random days” where anybody who wanted to meet with him…

Getting Outside My Comfort Zone

The only times you really grow are the times you push yourself outside of your comfort zone.

For the most part, the first two months of our South American adventure have been relatively easy and fun. There have been times I unintentionally ended up…

Celebrating Freedom

For the first two months of our South American journey we had a plan, a roughed out sketch of the places we wanted to visit…

I Am Racist (And So Is America)

Two days ago Brittany and I were walking through Cuenca when a street dog attacked her. It got its teeth around her leg before we were able to scare it off. There was no physical harm but the event left her a little jittery.

Three Buses, Two Taxis, a Boat, a Sean and a Gerald

It’s easy to complain about busses in South America. There’s loud and endless movies, the bumpy roads, the weird smells.

We’ve taken our fair share of shitty busses in the past three months but I think our trip…

Lima Food Safari Day 2

Today is the big day. It’s what we’ve been training for (or truthfully, not training for) our whole lives.

Breakfast: Farmer’s Market

10 AM: We head to the farmer’s market for my favorite food in the world: free samples.

Lima Food Safari Day 1

We came to Lima for one reason and one reason only, to eat our faces off.

Today we embarked on the first day of our three-day eating safari.

I am not nearly articulate, knowledgable (or pretentious) enough to be a food blogger or even a…

Adios Ecuador, Hello Peru

Mancora Mancora Mancora! A man yells. Startled, we awake into a fog of confusion. It’s 4:52 AM. We left Ecuador at 9:30 PM and caught our first (last?) overnight bus into Peru.

We had booked an airbnb for $27 in a town called Pocitas, a short distance from…

Conquering the Cuy

After finishing law school I traveled to Ecuador and Peru for about three weeks. I went to the beach, to the Amazon, to Machu Picchu and for the most part I had a great time. The one thing I regretted was that I left without trying Cuy.