by Eileen | Feb 7, 2013 | food, food and drink, shopping, travel
This has happened to me once before, this purchasing of an unwieldy object while on the road, as if I forget that this thing, this cumbersome thing, will accompany me through my travels for the next few weeks. The first time it happened was with a large, unwieldy hat....
by Eileen | Feb 2, 2013 | feria, travel
Above, fresh hibiscus flowers. Their dried cousins, brewed as tea, cured what ailed me re: resfrío (cold). Managua was important to me. For years, it was the capital city in Latin America that caused me the most discomfort. I remember arriving there in 1993, and...
by Eileen | Jan 27, 2013 | chile, feria, health, santiago, shopping
Comingback from vacation brings me back immediately to two important things. Laundry and the feria. Today’s feria foray smelled like basil and melón calameño (cantaloupe) and ripe peaches and sometimes tomatoes. And occasionally, fish, but I speed past that part...
by Eileen | Jan 12, 2013 | bicycle, food and drink, haha, travel
There’s a funny story about a day and all of the various ways it did not go right. Worry not, this post ends well. A few days ago, I had to schlep bags hither and yon from the satellite hostel house I was staying at in Managua. I had a cold, but despite...
by Eileen | Dec 31, 2012 | memoir, meta, travel
At the risk of waxing too personal (but not that kind of waxing), I want to tell you about the person you see in this picture. She is terrified. She is uninformed, ill-prepared, and, not speaking the language, practically mute. And in this picture, she is taking a...
