Cuando me mudé a Santa Cruz de la Sierra, tenía un cierto escepticismo sobre mi nuevo hogar en Bolivia. ¿Dónde estaban los picos imponentes de las montañas de los Andes? ¿Y los paisajes peligrosos que yo esperaba ver de las imágenes de Lonely Planet y National Geographic? Y en serio, ¿de dónde vienen todas estas(…)
Learn everything you need to know about the local cuisine of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia as I eat my way through the fair. Cow’s heart, anyone?
Nicolasa Zerán Meet Nicolasa. Her national ID claims she is 51 but she could really be 52. She doesn’t exactly know in what year her April 12 birthday falls and so, she chose the later for the record. She can, however, recount spending the last 25 years selling strawberries and other fruit on the same(…)
Saturday, April 6, 2013 Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera , Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia I guess you can call Mother Nature a soccer fan. After a week of relentless rainfall, the skies parted just long enough for a friendly exhibition game between Bolivia and Brazil at Estadio Ramón Tahuichi Aguilera in Santa Cruz yesterday.(…)
Hailing from the great Midwest, I spent my youth rolling in thick blankets of snow and launching myself into giant piles of leaves in anticipation for the coming winter whiteout. And while summers were spent in one of Minnesota’s thousands of lakes, we clambered over giant iron rocks and hiked a waterfront of woods instead(…)