The most momentous book exchange of the whole trip!
The clock is ticking with only five days left in South America! It’s bittersweet to be leaving this continent we’ve grown to love so much, but knowing that more adventures await further north! We got lucky to find Literar-té in Taganga, the biggest book exchange we’ve seen in South America! Finding the shop is kind […]
1/3 of our South American Travel Highlights – Medellin
As of January 27, we’ve been in South America for three months! That’s about 1/3 of the total time we’ll be down here (assuming money lasts) so it’s quite a milestone. Sometimes I feel like we’ve been on the road forever and other times it feels like it was just yesterday we landed in Medellin. […]
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Seven years after Open Veins of Latin America was published, the author, Eduardo Galeano, added a postword chapter. In it, he summed up the book, stating “This book was written to have a talk with people. A non-specialized writer wanted to tell a non-specialized public about certain facts that official history, history as told by […]
Reading List before traveling South America
Reading List before traveling South America I always try to read and research a lot about places before I go there. I think it’s important to read more than just the travel guides and actually delve into the history and literature of places I’ll be traveling. It gives me a lot more insight and helps […]