Vilcabamba and the Sacred Valley of Ecuador

A brief draught from the Fountain of Youth

La Playa Matilda

or, Paradise Found, Nicaragua

San Luis Potosí and Guanajuato

in which I gain the company of two friends and visit magical cities

A Crash in Los Altos

There is a deep cut scratch in my glasses that wasn’t there before. Sometimes, I see small whitish shapes, but most of the…

A Brief and Fated Romance

or Two Weeks in San Salvador

Medellin

Is this place the one I want to settle down in for awhile?

In the Orbit of Ometepe

I find myself on the southwestern shore of a giant volcanic island in the…

Rain in Xela

I came into the city of Quetzaltenango- which absolutely everyone calls by its Maya name, Xela- for the second time on a cold and rainy…

Adrift in the Land of the Rich Coast

Thanksgiving. Playa Samara on the Nicoya Peninsula, northwest of Costa Rica. Feeling tropical…

The Trampoline of Death and a Last Stop in Pasto