https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/top-10-things-to-do-in-mexico-city Back in 2022, I went to Mexico City with two friends, Luis, who’s Mexican and grew up in CDMX, and Erick, who’s from Miami with Cuban parents. Because we stayed at Luis’s house, the whole trip felt way more local than anything I’d done before. We spent the week eating ridiculous amounts of tacos,…

https://www.clarin.com/deportes/seleccion-fotos-historicas-diego-maradona-celebrar-59-anos_0_5xnm2-wP.html In 2022, a group of my friends from Lima and I decided to “get to know Buenos Aires.” Of course, that sounded great on paper: like a cultural trip complete with museums, history, and deep reflection. The truth? We’d all been to Argentina before… just never by ourselves. Our real goal was simple: go…

If there’s one trip that changed the way I see Latin America, it wasn’t a city or a beach; it was the jungle. In my last year of high school, we spent a week in Tambopata, deep in the Peruvian Amazon. It was humid, endless, and alive in a way that no city ever could…

If there’s one thing my family doesn’t miss, it’s football. Since South Africa 2010, we’ve packed our bags and gone wherever the game takes us: Qatar, Brazil, even Russia. The 2018 World Cup in Russia was unforgettable because it marked Peru’s return to the tournament after a 36 year absence. Singing the national anthem in…

Cuzco, Peru, 4200m above sea level When I think back to my community service trip in Cuzco, a few things come to mind: the thin air, the laughter of kids who destroyed us in soccer, and a swarm of 42 bees that ended up sending me back to the hospital in the city. We went…