Lovely and historic Austin, Texas is the closest thing John and I have to a home base in the U.S. Since most of my immediate family lives in…
A couple of weeks ago, we spent a few days in one of our favorite sections of Colombia’s Caribbean coast: an area in Magdalena Department east of the…
When does a goat roll on four wheels and an old Ford chassis? When it’s a Colombian chiva! Since publishing our April news post, we’ve gotten lots of…
Yesterday was a big day: John got his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from SURA, our Colombian healthcare provider. “So tell us, John, how does it…
Where did April go?? With our weekend quarantines now a fact of life and Colombia’s devastating third COVID wave showing no real signs of relenting, the months are…
Barrio La Sierra: Building a Hopeful Future How do you get to the essence of a city, in a culture that’s foreign to your own? And especially a…
Did you know that Colombia has the world’s highest bird diversity? By some estimates, there are over 1,900 species here, comprising 20 percent of the bird diversity of…
Here are some interesting Colombia stories that got our attention over this past month. Colombia is making some inroads in alternative energy. Colombia has just inaugurated its first…
Everyone remembers their first trip to Paris. Mine was in August of 2019, just a few months before the COVID sky started to fall. And for me, the…