I recently spent a week in Cartagena, Colombia. I had been planning the trip for a while, but had never been and didn’t know anybody, so it was quite an adventure! Now, there are a lot of awesome things to see there and I loved every minute. I will say though, I didn’t stop sweating…
3 Things You Didn’t Know About the Wiwa Tribe
I’ve traveled to a lot of places. Maybe not as many as that one sweaty dollar with a single bloody fingerprint you find on the side of the road after the police raid your friendly neighborhood crack ring, but I have been to a few. On my recent adventure to the accordion loving nation of…
Our Favorite Water Filter (Review of the Sawyer Mini Filter)
I can say in all truth that the Sawyer Mini Water Filtration System has saved me from hospital visits several times now. I spend a large portion of my life in places where the water will turn you into a convulsing volcano at both ends of your body. This post has affiliate links Three weeks…
Crucial travel gadgets for the serious traveler
Seeing the world provides some of the best experiences in life, but if you get dysentery because you drank stagnant river water it doesn’t matter how beautiful those flamingos are. Nature lovers and travelers take pride in smiling broadly and declaring through their chattering teeth that bathing in the ice chip-filled murder river is exhilarating….
6 Tips For Sleeping In Airports With Your Children
After eight hours in the nicest bus I had ever ridden in, my family arrived at the border of Chile and Argentina high in the Andes mountains. I stood in the baggage revision line with my wife and son as the immigration officer began searching everyone’s bags. I had felt fine all day, but suddenly…
4 More Bits of Parenting Advice From Around the World (Part 2)
When I wrote my first article on parenting tips from around the world, I found that there is a vast sea of different styles and beliefs in the 16,000+ cultures on the planet. There is so much I simply couldn’t fit it all into one article. And there is too much weirdness, questionable origins, and…
4 Bits of Parenting Advice From Around the World
Being a parent is an interesting beast to tackle, because we all come from one of the 16,000+ people groups/cultures around the world, and every culture has a different idea of what parenting should look like. People tend to be defensive about their culture, but parents are downright ferocious about their techniques and most are…
The Life of a Medical Translator
I have been a medical translator for over ten years now. It isn’t my full time gig, but a few weeks out of the year I am called upon to use my Spanish for the medical community. They are always my favorite weeks because I get to see things most people never do without going…
5 Steps to Mastering a Foreign Language
I am fluent in English, my birth language, and Spanish, which I learned as an adult. People constantly gawk at me like baby deer at their dear sweet mother when they hear me speak in the Spanish tongue. Especially since I am one of the least Latino looking people in the universe. And yet if…
4 Micronations You Need to Visit
Did you ever think, “I sure wish I could be the dictator of a nation I made up, and do whatever I want, and make whatever laws I want”? Like, do you hate Robinson Crusoe and think all the weak-willed fools who love it should be imprisoned and fined? It turns out, you can totally…