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A Helping of Mexican Culture (Between Meals)
National parks, check. Ruins, check. Beaches, check. Mountains, check. Waterfalls, jungle cruise, homestays, check. Eating insects, check.
In my Latin American adventure, I’d covered a lot of ground. But with one week to go before I crossed into Texas, though, there was a gap: culture. Not culture as in, “Why do you guys have dinner so [...] -
Mom and Dad, Meet My Budget
My parents and I arrived promptly for our 7 p.m. reservation late last month in what was almost certainly the lone white-tablecloth dining establishment in Los Zorros, a seaside fishing village on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. As the only guests, we were seated without delay and were soon digging into three whole [...]
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Stuffed Peppers, Lamb’s Head Soup, Canyons and Condors in Arequipa, Peru
To a person with a sweet tooth versed in Latin American desserts — by which I mean me — Arequipa, Peru, sounds like a delicious place. From its name comes the word arequipe, which is what Colombians and Venezuelans (though not Peruvians, oddly enough) call their versions of dulce de leche.
But the culinary fame of [...] -
Frugal San Francisco
TRAVEL DEALS – Day after day in January, the rain poured down on the California coast without pause or pity — some of the worst storms to hit the state in a decade. High winds took out power lines and overturned SUVs. Garbage washed up on beaches. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their mudslide-threatened [...]