A combination of radioactive diarrhea and wet quasi-frozen street surfaces kept you from opting for 2-wheel transportation today. Besides, buses allow for further readings of The Brooklynites, an awesome book with images of 'random' people who live in this borough and captions that capture their voices. And here's where we dive into that yelo cab. ( Read more... )

Bobo, the apologetic Haitian dispatcher reports zero taxi vacancies this morning. "You don't believe how many drivers I send home already." It's looking like Sabbath is forced to be my 6th working day again this week. It's the peak season in which cabbies maximize their turnout. Days leading up to this have had the widest range of revenue. Anywhere ( Read more... )

Bushwick was the first neighborhood I called home upon moving to New York. And in that same corner of Brooklyn is where I found housing affordable enough to establish a suitable address for my little sister, her two schoolmates, and our mother… all brand new transplants from Florida. Living under the same roof since August, we've adapted well, and ( Read more... )

I'm done with couch surfing in New York. I now have a place to call home for these last two months before my sister moves up. Gabriel the giant lives at this punk house in Crown Heights and one of his housemates needed someone to sublet half of a room. I'm at 1414 Lincoln Place. Zip code: 11213. I'll be at that house until end of June I hope. That' ( Read more... )

You try to learn random words in sign language. Most of them drain through the colander of your brain. Cara teaches you one that sticks though. Create a pair of horns with fingers of one hand. Place the other beside your elbow, with all fingertips touching, and explode outward! What's it mean? Speaking of meaningfulness: Lake Worth means many ( Read more... )

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Gravel road connects Bolivia with Argentina. It follows a dry riverbed with cactus hills in the background, sun beating down hard. The human atmosphere changes instantly across this line, from native complexions and lingo into a more European image. Just what I imagined. Traveling alone has its pluses, but those are easily outweighed by the ( Read more... )

This country´s flag is the continent´s second most organic. Chileans in line ( Read more... )

Entered on the 22nd. A frontier of vultures claiming they got friends ( Read more... )