How To Make A Caipirinha – The Best-Kept Secret of Brasil

Some people feel sick the morning after too many alcoholic beverages from the night before, but the Caipirinha was created to ward off just the opposite! Legend has it that around 1918 in São Paul...

How NOT To Spend A Night In São Paulo

I should have listened. My friend Jocelyn in Santiago, Chile told me São Paulo, Brasil would be a waste of my time. Originally my plan was to spend a week in São Paulo and a week in Rio de Jan...

Don’t Forget Why You Are Traveling

Traveling can be both amazingly fun and incredibly exhausting. On one hand you have the “fun” – meeting new people, getting to know other travelers, exploring historical places, ga...

The Teatro Colon – An Opera House Unlike Any Other

The Teatro Colon. Not only an opera house, but a landmark full of over one hundred years of critically-acclaimed music, world-renowned architecture, and unparalleled history. After originally openin...

How to Exchange Money on the Argentinian Black Market

If you’re in Buenos Aires and need some spending cash, forget going to a bank or ATM. I naively went to an ATM the first two times I needed cash and received the current Argentinian exchange r...