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There is a certain hand gesture used in Latin American countries, when someone finds something funny.   If you held out two fingers, diagonally and then made a motion like you were trying to whip something off your hand, you´d have it.  Well, almost, no one does it quite like they do. So I´m laughing, doing [...]

I didn´t want to go to Carnaval, honest.  I had the idea to skip the crowds, the noise, the heavy drinking, the late nights, the excess– all of it, and just head to this one coastal town in northern Panama.  In fact the entire trip was spur of the moment: a quick decision to skip [...]

I’m a Do-It-Yourself-er.  I like to research.  I love finding a good deal.  I definitely don’t want the same exact lousy experience as everyone else when I travel.  And recently… I learned to love my guidebook. I was never a big guidebook person.  I didn’t trust them.  I preferred to do my own research, and [...]

I often get this question in one form or another, but it wasn’t until a long time reader posted a comment asking just that question that I realized if she was still wondering, it was time I addressed it. Here is her comment: “Any advice for a single, female, 27 years old who is thinking [...]

On my last night out with in Cuba, I hung out with the boys: Brayan, Orlando, Roberto Carlos and The Mexican (Cesar).  We were doing it up Cuban style, which means that the American buys a $3 bottle of Rum at the liquor store, one of the boys hides it in his pants, we order [...]

(photo above: Cubana checking her cell phone) In a few days, you can get a sense of a place. Still, Cuba alludes me. There is a wicked sense of humor, something that charms me, but also reminds me of the men playing on the deck of the Titanic. It’s all screwed, what can we do–taken [...]

After posting pictures the other day, I had a lot of people contact me privately asking the same thing: “Isn’t it illegal to go to Cuba? And if so, how did you get there?” Background First of all, it’s only a question for Americans. Virtually everyone else can travel to Cuba, spend money there and [...]

My first day in Cuba landed me straight in Havana. I’m not sure what I expected, it is after all a major tourist destination, especially for the likes of Europeans planning on visiting America, who first stop in Cuba. It’s like any international city, perhaps more so. The capital buildings are gorgeous, if not slightly [...]

We stood at the immigration desk at the Cancun airport. The officer cracked open the clean crisp passport of my friend and applied his seal on the first page. Whap. It was official, we were in another country. Too often I forget the novelty of this simple thing, knowing that you are standing on foreign [...]

When I left for Central America, sans husband, I wasn’t sure how long I’d travel before I’d see him again. The longest we’d ever been apart was 2 weeks. Once. Most of the time, we’re together an absurdly large amount of time. We both work during the day in the same office. We’ve been known [...]