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Buying Rum in Cuba

Sometimes I do things I would advise against. In fact, more than once, I have specifically told readers not to do something, and then gone and done it myself. I don’t know man, sometimes I’m in it for the story. I mean really, most of the stories end up on my blog, so you could say I put myself… Continue reading

Reading at Sea: The Best Library on the Water

When I read that a hotel has a “gym” or a “library” I tend to insert those quotation marks around the words in my mind. I know that what a hotel considers a gym is usually a dirty old yoga mat and a half broken treadmill. A hotel library is a more likely collection of 3 discarded copies of Eat,… Continue reading

Hanging Out at Fidel Castro’s House in Cuba

I have so much to say about how speaking Spanish with a Puerto Rican accent affected my trip to Cuba and I plan to write a separate blog post about it, but this experience deserved it’s own post.

Let’s talk about that one time I went to Fidel Castro’s house.

I only had about 7 hours to explore in Santiago… Continue reading

Everything You Need to Know about Traveling with Fathom Cruises

I never thought of myself as a cruise person, but Fathom Cruises claimed to focus on “Impact Travel” and that intrigued me. This company has a smaller boat, holding only 700 passengers, as opposed to the couple of thousand many other cruise boats hold. They also stay at cruise ports longer so that the passengers can actually interact with locals… Continue reading

What is Chocolate Santa Fe?

In Bogotá, Colombia, it’s very common to see Chocolate Santa Fe on the menu. This popular drink is found on menus in the same area as coffee and tea. So what is it? It’s hot chocolate with cheese in it.

Stay with me here guys, I promise I’m not making this up.

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How Chocolate Santa Fe came to be

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