Travel

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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