Today, tourists meander along Paraty’s cobbled streets, admiring this remarkably charming Colonial outpost along Brazil’s epically scenic coast.

I recently found myself asking: Am I unhappy with this lifestyle, with uprooting myself every few months to experience a new place?

The question for many remains: what do you do when your short-term sublet fails you?

I filled with hungry glee, upon discovering Brazil’s pay-what-it-weighs “kilo” restaurants, known here as a restaurante por quilo.

I returned to my hotel after the shawarma incident, when suddenly I felt filled with a whole lot more than regret.

For no good reason whatsoever, the thought of Iguazu Falls always left me unsettled. As a producer, writer and editor for the Travel Channel for eons, Iguazu Falls crossed my desk quite a bit — via the work and travels of other writers, of course. I’d see pictures of the […]

  When the going gets weird, the weird get going. Or something like that. At any rate, after a few days in Bariloche, Ayaz and I realized that this town felt more than a little bit off to both of us. Don’t get me entirely wrong: it’s in a gorgeous […]

Another day, another travel blunder. This particular misstep involved the heady combination of my best intentions and poor Spanish language skills.