Street Food: The Hunt for the Perfect Empanada

There are some questions that are truly existential. What is the meaning of life? Is there such a thing as true love? Or, what is the perfect empanada? Well perhaps finding the "best" empanada is, in retrospect, not the most important thing ever but I would say that it is still nevertheless a good way…

The Bus Diaries: 32000 Km in 6 months

From 2017 to 2019 I was outside of the United States. Over the course of 33 months, most of which was working in Ecuador, I experienced a lot of new locations, met people from all walks of life and ate the pantheon of dishes found around Latin America. 11 countries and 32000 kilometers later my…

Cholitas Luchadoras: Fighting for Equality

Have you experienced wrestling if you have never seen Cholita wrestling? That is the big question and I dare say, probably not. Now everyone knows there's often a lot of theatrics when it comes to wrestling and you'll still find some of that in Bolivia's iconic wrestling but at the same time it is empowering,…

Lamentos Bolivianos: Evo Morales before the coup

While I was in Bolivia there was an air of positivity over the coming elections, with incumbent President Evo Morales still seen as the most likely to win the election. Problems had loomed in the past, such as the failure of the referendum in 2016 that would have supported the president's running for a 4th…