Best Kept Secret in the Caribbean – Shark Ho!

No one has ever heard of Providencia, and part of me wants to keep it that way. But I absolutely had to share a video of our dives with sharks off island (link at the bottom), and as long as

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The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is Never a Straight Sail

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. My father ingrained this basic geometric lesson in me young, jaywalking the streets of Chicago (it was cold and he was in a hurry; he’s otherwise a law abiding citizen).

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Floating Doctors

Lombrices (worms), correcaminos (scabies), piojos (lice), pulgas (flees), piedras de la vesícula biliar (gallbladder stones), and parásitos and tuberculosis (thank goodness for cognates). I lived several years in Latin America, I negotiated multi-billion dollar transactions in Spanish for the better

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