I met Roni Weiss in Buenos Aires at a Couchsurfing Christmas party. There was pionono and lots of fresh orange juice and champagne. He was teaching in Santiago, Chile. I was on my way to Salta.
Fast forward five years… Roni is living in Brooklyn. He got married and became dad to one really adorable baby. Now he’s hosting NYC’s first NY Travel Festival.
When’s the last time you asked a complete stranger if you could sleep on his couch? I do it all the time. This is how.
“Why Salta?” people ask me all the time. Friends. Family. People I’ve met through this blog and even from Saltenos. All want to know why an American family would settle here. The answer is simple.
You’ve been in Argentina on a tourist visa and your 90 days is swiftly reaching an end. What are you going to do?
You would not believe what I find in my handbag. Somehow, the damn thing just gets out of control.
Um, so yeah. I got my Burning Man ticket. I’m one of, like, 20 people who did. Yet, where is that excitement? The one I get when I know my spot on the playa has been secured, and I can move on with my life. I’ll tell you where it is. It’s sitting in my …
We spent six months living in Panama, most of that time on a tiny island off the Caribbean coast where only a footpath leads from one side to the other, and everyone knows each other by first name. There are no big name stores, no buying in bulk and never a crowd. Then we went back to the United States.
I would have ignored Sarmiento 645, The New Brighton Restaurant, if I had just been out for a walk. Something about its large ornate doors and old fashioned wooden interior conjured images of an overpriced and painfully tourist trap, meaning soggy milanesa rounding out a tired menu ejecutivo. I visited again 8 month later, my …
I sit here today on the cusp of signing a one-year-lease on a little house in Salta. Can you imagine? One whole year living in one place? It seems almost unimaginable after more than two years of constant travel. But wait! Does this mean I can no longer call myself a bonafide traveler? In some …
I joined Twitter almost two years ago, but I wasn’t very active until recently. Now I’m hooked, and here’s why.
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