Like travel addicts everywhere, we’re getting pretty antsy. After almost FIVE MONTHS of quarantine here in Colombia, it’s clear that we’re not leaving the country anytime soon. Even…
This time last year, Medellín was alive with flowers, monumental public events, and civic pride. For 61 years running, the Feria de las Flores has been the biggest…
While restrictions on movement and commerce are gradually easing, the Colombia quarantine is dragging on. As we enter our fourth month of confinement, one of the longest in…
Back in early March, as part of our quest to see as much of rural Colombia as we can, we took a weekend road trip to the off-the-radar…
Dateline: June 21, 2020 The little lad in this photo is my dad, Frank K. Baker. He was maybe 4 or 5 (circa 1938) and proudly showing off…
Dateline: June 8, 2020 What a week. It’s hard to believe only 10 days have passed since I woke up heartsick about the murder of George Floyd and…
Latitude Adjustment note: Here’s the third and final post from our friends Sunny and Kevin Branson, who visited the headquarters of Wildlife SOS on a Founders’ Trip to India…
We interrupt this regularly scheduled program. I sat down to write another COVID-19 update this morning and realized I just don’t have it in me. I think I…
DATELINE May 17, 2020, Medellín, Colombia. We don’t know about you, but the longer this pandemic drags on, the more we’re craving even the smallest signs of normal.…