Category: Culture
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TD202 – Oct 9, 2022 – AMJDancer – Beat It, Thriller & Billie Jean
AMJDancer is a spot-on Michael Jackson impersonator who does street dance performances around the Carrera 70 entertainment district in Medellin. This is the fourth time I have bumped into him and the longest video I have so far. This starts part way into Beat It and has the entirety of Thriller and Billie Jean. I…
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TD189 – Sep 26, 2022 – Michael Jackson de Medellín – Thriller & Billie Jean
I took the day off from working on the website, so here’s Billie Jean and Thriller 30 minutes ago. -D
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TD187 – Sep 24, 2022 – Welcome to CartasADiabla.com
Whilst walking Montería streets this morning during golden hour, I decided to make a post about the website. How meta. Time for more exposition. You may be asking yourself, what in the hell does Cartas A Diabla mean? Roughly translated from Spanish, it means Letters to the Devilwoman. I considered several similar names that are…
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TD182.63 – Sep 19, 2022 – Half a year of travel in Latin America
If you don’t like films with a lot of exposition, skip down two paragraphs. MATH ALERT! An earth year is approximately 365.26 earth days. 365.26/2 = 182.63. My journey from Jacksonville, Florida to San Jose, Costa Rica started on March 21, 2022. Googling “March 21 plus 182 days” indicates that September 19 marks my first…
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Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other….
Repeat Chorus 200 times:One, two, three, fourOne, two, three, four, five, sixOne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight One, two, three, fourOne, two, three, four, five, sixOne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight Two lovers sat on a park bench with their bodies touching each other, holding hands in the moonlight. There was…
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TD 176 – Sep 13, 2022 – Cartagena to Tolú
Parental warning: explicit lyrics, rated PG-13 [7:17 PM, 9/13/2022] Derrick 🇨🇴 🇵🇦🇳🇮🇨🇷: It’s been another difficult travel day. I want to preface this story by saying that I love travel. It makes me feel alive like nothing else. It can be trying on your patience when buses are consistently late and it feels like everyone…
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TD 62 – May 22, 2022 – Costa Rica to Panama Border Crossing
The border crossing was lively. I saw a Panamanian pigeon fight, a plastic chair I was sitting in spontaneously disintegrated in front of a bunch of people but I was smooth in my recovery and the border patrol police tore our bus apart for 90 minutes looking for drugs. So we are running super late…
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TD5 – Mar 26, 2022 – La Sabana Park San Jose 🇨🇷
I just got back from Parque Sabana, the biggest park in downtown San Jose. It’s not that beautiful right now. The pond has no water because Costa Rica is at the end of dry season, the plants looks pitiful, nothing is green, the outdoor artworks have faded paint and there are mostly sports fields. There is…
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