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Setting Out, México & Guatemala
Central America
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Chile & Argentina
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Central America
The Road to San Salvador
The Road to San Salvador
Today, a gray Tuesday near the end of October, I am finally leaving Guatemala, making my first southern progress in two months. Though to…
Gabriel Goldstein
Mar 18, 2018
A Brief and Fated Romance
A Brief and Fated Romance
or Two Weeks in San Salvador
Gabriel Goldstein
Mar 30, 2018
Three Countries in a Day
Three Countries in a Day
or; a pickup truck, three buses, a border, a microbus, a border, a van and two taxis
Gabriel Goldstein
Apr 3, 2018
León
León
On the ninety-seventh day of my journey, I came to Nicaragua after a grueling fourteen hours across parts of three countries. At 11:30 at…
Gabriel Goldstein
Apr 13, 2018
Convalescing in Granada
Convalescing in Granada
Got off the bus in the oldest Spanish city in Nicaragua in late morning, feverish. After nine days feeling exhausted and bad nights of…
Gabriel Goldstein
Apr 29, 2018
In the Orbit of Ometepe
In the Orbit of Ometepe
I find myself on the southwestern shore of a giant volcanic island in the middle of a giant lake…
Gabriel Goldstein
May 4, 2018
La Playa Matilda
La Playa Matilda
or, Paradise Found, Nicaragua
Gabriel Goldstein
May 10, 2018
From Nica to Tico
From Nica to Tico
Woke up in my tent in the yard of Casa Cristina, knowing I had a border to cross that day. I’d have to be on point to make the ten o’clock…
Gabriel Goldstein
May 17, 2018
Adrift in the Land of the Rich Coast
Adrift in the Land of the Rich Coast
Thanksgiving. Playa Samara on the Nicoya Peninsula, northwest of Costa Rica. Feeling tropical travel fatigue. A lot of it is just the heat…
Gabriel Goldstein
May 31, 2018
Lost in the City and Found in the Mountains
Lost in the City and Found in the Mountains
Five days in the south of Costa Rica
Gabriel Goldstein
Jun 9, 2018
To Panama
To Panama
Woke up in my tent at the edge of a ravine, a hundred feet above the roaring Rio Chirripo Pacifico. A twenty minute walk downhill from the…
Gabriel Goldstein
Jun 18, 2018
Boquete
Boquete
Mamallena’s Hostel is painted a bright haint blue, like the underhang of so many porches I’d painted in Virginia and Louisiana. It sits…
Gabriel Goldstein
Jul 12, 2018
To the West of the Azuero
To the West of the Azuero
passing time in a remote beach town in Panama, I stumble upon a way to South America
Gabriel Goldstein
Jul 15, 2018
At the Crossroads of Continents
At the Crossroads of Continents
Five days in Panama City
Gabriel Goldstein
Jul 25, 2018
Passage
Passage
Panama City to Naranja Chico
Gabriel Goldstein
Aug 9, 2018
Passage, Part Two: San Blas to Capurganá
Passage, Part Two: San Blas to Capurganá
continuing our voyage from Panama to Colombia in El Titanic del Caribe, a little beat-up motorboat
Gabriel Goldstein
Aug 15, 2018
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