If there is one thing I’ve learned while living in Cuba, it’s that Cubans know their stars, be it authors, film directors, actors, ballerinas, baseball players, etc., and they go nuts for them. Coming as a foreigner who has studied elements of Cuban culture, it is easy to know who is a big deal based […]
I could have danced all night
I have danced more in Cuba than I have danced in any other time of my life, and some of the best nights I have had in Havana have been on dance floors. Nothing beats walking into a club on a night between Thursday and Sunday, ordering something to drink for $2 or $3 and […]
F**k the Wright Brothers (In Poem Form)
This is a poem about flying on planes. Planes, like the big metal tubes in the sky That should not, cannot be there It just does not make sense. This is also a poem, about how In order to travel in Australia, You travel a lot. In planes. So here goes, because even talking […]
Rediscovering Science
As dusk fell in the rainforest and the sun burned a dying orange band across the eucaplypts, our field biology instructor told us his worst nightmare: letting a baited mammal trap go unrecovered through the night, with a furry bush rat or antichinus starving inside. For the next two hours, our group of seven students […]
In the Middle of some Ancient Rainforest
For my week off in Australia, I worked at a bed and breakfast farm in Cow Bay, located within the isolated Daintree rainforest. Travelers are welcome to work there in exchange for housing and food, an arrangement similar to the “wwoofing” experience. The B&B and farm where I worked, The Epiphyte, is about three hours […]