Bienvenidos a Miami! I wrote this piece in South Beach Miami, sitting on a beige stone wall that separates the sand from the tar. I’m alone and I haven’t heard my voice for over an hour. I have a pen and my notebook in my hands, but I’m completely glazed…
“Mi vida! Mi amor!” We landed in Havana. With our heads outside the taxi windows, we were dazzled by the ride. The hostel that hosted us was colorful and airy, but it was the piña coladas and the mojitos at 2.5 CUC ($1.50) that truly captivated us. We drank four. …
Welcome to the city that never sleeps and that seems to be everything that is not. The bride that takes the yellow cab, may not be heading to the church but to a photo shoot. The Mickey Mouse, in Times Square, is not from the US but from South America…
From an early age, the land where I was born was mentioned on my school homework. Misspelled but described with nostalgia and curiosity. Destiny made me move to the United States, and when it was possible I went to Connecticut. Without expectations, I led to the indicated address, and in…
Day by day I could feel her giving up. I no longer knew what to do for her. Lying in the dark, she examined emptiness, lull herself to sleep, and in the morning stood at the bedroom window. With her arms tangled on the wood, she memorized that landscape, for…
January 16, 6 am I was running late, in the corridors of the airport. Accelerated and barefoot, I passed the security, almost lost the plane, and I started my first trip alone. My parents didn’t like the idea. Months before, Paris was the scene of death and terror. Although fearful,…
Solitude and fear often led me to travel. When I searched for answers I traveled, bought a ticket to find me. In other times, when I had no source of income, the trips happened closer but much more far away. I would shut the door of my house, put on…
A trip, dictated the rest of my life. One, the first one, was enough to know that no matter what I do, how or whom I am, I will always travel. I didn’t came back the same way: burned skin, suitcase filled of shells, sandbags and pictures of things that…