A rarely heard utterance: “My favorite thing about the city was the buses.” A Dutch traveler said it to me about Panama City before I left. I inwardly scoffed; she must just think that because they use bikes so much in the Netherlands. But then I got there, and she’d nailed it. Sorry, Karl[...]
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Bye, Bye, Bias
I went to Nicaragua for Semana Santa, the Holy Week before Easter. When I told my Costa Rican students, they asked the same question: Why? Everyone sounded shocked. They thought it was dangerous, that the people weren’t nice, and there always seemed to be a story about dangerous dogs. Then, when I[...]
