Travel Blog

Final Lunch with ISA I’m home! And enjoying the beautiful Colorado sunshine and dry air. Wait, what? I mean the rainiest June I have ever...

The children stand along the edge of the road with a hand raised hoping for coins This blog post has been sitting on my metaphorical...

Beautiful bathroom mural It’s hard to believe the semester is nearly over. I’ve got a couple more posts in the works before it all comes...

Botero Square in downtown Medellin It’s time for part 2 of my Semana Santa adventuring with my parents. What’s next on the list? Murder...

My parents and me in front of a 500 year old Ceiba tree Semana Santa, or my spring break, was a couple weeks ago and my parents flew down...

I couldn’t sleep last night so I present you with a little 2am writing… It’s the strangest thing I exist between incarnations of water...

Bus stop snack spot! Also the location of the best juice in the city! There are a few things about Barranquilla that I’ve been saving up...

Off on a big hiking adventure! It’s hard to beat hiking up a seemingly endless hill in the midst of a tropical forest, so sweaty you...

Traditional Carnival dancers From the minute we arrived in Barranquilla we were told about Carnival. Then the hype leading into the...

The ISA crew in front of the old walled city Just two hours from Barranquilla is the historic city of Cartagena or, as it felt like to...

My week hasn’t been wildly exciting but I figured you might enjoy some commentary on life in the streets here because that can be quite...

Ok, so you know how I haven’t mentioned being homesick down here? Well, somehow I really haven’t been… until this weekend. I would have...

Part 1: Why I think I’m on vacation The Barranquilla equivalent of Chicagos Bean Let me start off with gratitude to the Barranquilleros...

Hola! As the first week of this big adventure is coming to a close I wanted to take the time to share some photos and first impressions...