DATELINE April 4, 2020, Medellín, Colombia. We’re feeling a little more downbeat this week. There’s been a lot of gloomy COVID-19 pandemic news lately:…
DATELINE March 28, 2020, Medellín, Colombia. Cheers to all! Hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and hunkered down. Here’s the latest from our little…
DATELINE March 21, 2020, Medellín, Colombia. As recently as a couple of weeks ago we were going about our business like everyone else: working,…
Colombia’s biggest carnival is held in its fourth largest city, Barranquilla. It’s also billed as the second-largest carnival in the world next to Rio…
With Susan’s mom visiting from Texas last week, we had the pleasure of visiting Finca Los Girasoles- a flower finca (farm) in Santa Elena…
Transformation is a complicated word here. For most visitors, the words “barrio transformation” conjure up Comuna 13, a district in the San Javier barrio…
As we look forward to another adventurous year, it’s fun to look back and see which of our posts resonated the most with our…
People ask us: “What’s it like to spend Christmas in Colombia?” Now that we’re finally spending the whole month of December here, we’re getting…
We first visited Comuna 13 in Medellín, Colombia back in July 2016. That was well before we made the decision to relocate here from…
Is it really possible that we’ve been here for a year? On Nov. 22, 2018, we moved to Medellín, Colombia after living in Boquete,…