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Colombia and Thailand: like rice & beans
Arriving on Colombia's Caribbean coast can seem like going to Thailand for the first time: witnessing style and grace coalesce with the land and spirit. Probably the best way to describe them, both in...
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Turbo Boat Ride to Capurganá Colombia
Correction: it's not a "ferry" but small fiberglass boats overpowered with double engines. The advice would pretty much be: don't do it from December to March, when the south wind waves face and lift...
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Hatti and Flinstones Beach, Playa la Roca
Most people dream about living on the edge of the sea, peering out into the abyss, maybe above your work table, at all times of day, but especially in the morning, right after your sleeping flies...
View ArticleMachismo and Cocaine in Cartagena
Continued from pervious post... After dinner, Hatti was speaking at the head of a long wooden table he made by hand, a gorgeous piece of hard mahogany planks that came from fell trees whose softer...
View ArticleHatti the Colombian Wizard talks about Jesus, Buddha, and the Three Levels of...
Hatti came and sat down at the big table under the big cabana, so I shut down my computer, moved from the bean chair and the night sea, and refocused my attention on more tangible things. I also didn’t...
View ArticleSalento and Colombia's Coffee Zone, Eje Cafetero
Coming soon, Vacations & Travel magazine is publishing my article about this amazing zone of coffee that sits in the rolling green folds of West-Central Colombia. It's fairly comprehensive, so keep...
View ArticleMontañita Ecuador and Palomino Colombia: best party beaches
These two spots are the coolest coastal jaunts between each other, with Mompiche and Capurgana spread out in between. What one has the other doesn't. Palomino has almost no nightlife and Montañita...
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