Cartagena’s Plaza de la Trinidad   For the last three years I´ve been scraping tips into a pile large enough to finance  a relatively thorough exploration of the lower half of The Americas.  For the purpose of this article, I’m primarily intersted in its widely varying cuisine, both on the

Mompox, Colombia   When traveling in a strange land with only a hazily defined sense of purpose to guide you, you find yourself pointed towards destinations based on some fairly whimsical pretexts.   The one which inspired me to make a long, harsh journey over unpaved roads perched in the

Colombia, especially Bogota, has become a really hot travel destination in recent years.  It’s begun shedding off it’s bad reputation as dangerous and is now attracting people from all over the world.  Bogota’s new found safety and popularly  is due in part to former Mayor Enrique Penalosa.  Come here him