Rogue Voodoo Child
Like a long-term fling where she just won’t leave and you can’t quite quit. A seductive affair that brings you to your knees. No matter how much time passes, I ultimately succumb to temptation every time. The passion is more…
Revival
She presses her lips on me, pushing her body hard against mine. I can feel her heat and wetness smear onto my skin. She looks up at me innocently with her pleading green eyes vying for my attention as I…
Georgia: War is on their Mind
“Russia bad!” the cab driver stares at me in the rearview while nodding, awaiting my agreement. I barely have time to close the door and settle into the backseat before the elderly Georgian man utters these few words in his…
Cultural Travel: Embrace the Good, the Bad, and Especially the Weird
Traveling abroad means learning how to use a bidet for the first time, warm hospitality from complete strangers, wonderful and unusual smells of exotic dishes, idyllic views thought to only exist on the cover of National Geographic, and music that…
Covid Is Over!
I never intended on Bali being a destination. Traveling throughout the pandemic wore on me. Restriction after restriction, QR codes along with unnecessary and excessive paperwork, lots of waiting, long lines, PCRs, vaccines, boosters, health forms, quarantines, masks, fees, COVID…
Sacromonte Hills
We walk past the Catedral de Granada entrance towards the Moroccan section of the city to hail a cab. It’s busy. The chatter of tour guides in several languages echo off the stone buildings holding their respective groups in a…
Bourdain’s Footsteps
Anthony Bourdain learned about free tapas culture during his visit to Granada, Spain in Parts Unknown. Along with each drink order small plates of food are served that tend to increase in quality, and many times they are samples of…
Spanish Flamenco
I bought my first acoustic guitar on my 16th birthday. I became obsessed with the instrument from day one. This is the time when I began finding and listening to instrumental guitarists and various other genres that hardly anyone else…
Journey into Cuscatlán
Growing up with a Salvadoran mother meant listening to Cumbia from the San Vicente region of El Salvador during early afternoons as a child on one of our cassettes. It’s common in many of those songs for the singer to…