BEFORE YOU GO TIPS | Booking the trip
Before booking an international trip, there’s some research you can do to lay the foundation for success. This is a comprehensive list—I’m covering all bases. Take what you need from it. (more…)
Uruguay
The World in a Little Blue Book
My passport is full. Each of the stamps on those little blue pages represents an encounter, an adventure, an education, an accomplishment, a story. I had to go to the passport office to have new pages inserted, and as I sat there waiting, I flipped through, and remembered. These are…
Weird but Wonderful | What’s Wrong With This Picture?
A salon hair dryer chained to a bicycle on a sidewalk in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.
Style Moment | Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
“All objects are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!” Camille Paglia (born 1947) American author, teacher, and social critic
One Day in Uruguay
On a rainy morning in Buenos Aires, I hopped a ship. To Uruguay. For a day. The “rapido buquebus” got me across the Rio de la Plata to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay in just under an hour. I emerged from the ferry station and hailed a taxi to go to…
Uruguay | Eight Days, Four Hotels | Costa Colonia, Colonia del Sacramento
In under an hour, a ferry will take you across the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. It’s an easy day trip, but at the last minute I decided to stay a night in Colonia. Ironically, the hotel I chose to stay in was…