Colombia, May 2018
The soles of Don Leo's leather loafers scraped along the sloped gravel road in the Colombian Zona Cafetera every day. There and back. But he only ever faced one direction: up.
Mexico, November 2017
I wonder what the Mexicas would say. When the mystical coded message from Huitzilopotchli aligned as a keystone and their dutiful wandering concluded in faithful triumph of coincidence on a marshy lake equally as lost in the high desert, just beyond the moisture of the tropics, they built their new empire.
Mexico, September 2017
We ascend from the arid toward the sky. From the Oaxacan plazas and limestone walls, where sleek suits and woven textile skirts shuffle together in the dusty light, in the happenstance chatter, circling the sizzling comals (large round cooking surface) poised at the intersections of the colonial grid.
Fiji, April 2017
Tropical dawn peers across the landscape of fluttering palms as I emerge from the customs office, barely awakened by the unharried entry to Fiji. North American tourists squawk in cheery circles of delirium outside the airport. Half the white buildings are under construction