Boi-Bumbá!
December 30, 2019, Parintins, Brazil — Parintins — say ‘pahr-een-chintz’ — is named for the original tribe of indigenous people who...
Oi! You Caught a Piranha!
en route to Lake Maica... note the hammock on the porch December 29, 2019, Santarém, Brazil — ‘Oi!’ is not pronounced like ‘oi veh.’...
Travel Trivia: ‘What is the world's largest rainforest?’
December 28, 2019, somewhere near the Amazon rainforest — I subscribe to a site called Travel Trivia. Of course I do! It’s one of many...
‘Now, Where Was I?’ I didn’t know!
December 26, 2019, Île Royale, French Guiana — When I was a high school student dreaming of the day I would travel abroad, I never dreamt...
Barbados: A Photographic Adventure
December 24, 2019, Bridgetown, Barbados — Located on a small island just 14 miles wide x 21 miles long, with a population of 287,000,...
San Juan, ‘a place that’s both of America and removed from it’*
December 21-22, 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico — Saturday was Embarkation Day. Two years ago, I had no idea what that entailed. Now I’m an...
Buenos dias, San Juan
December 20, 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico — Uneventful trip from Boston yesterday. Though after a 3:40 a.m. alarm (four of them, to tell...
