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Let’s face it, we all like to have nice things… but the reality is nice things typically come at an unaffordable price for most Americans. Well, I think that it’s safe to say that I’ve found a common happy ground, when it comes to automobiles. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know much about Read More
My Argentine grandparents spoke often and fondly of their visits to Spain; traveling to “la Madre Patria” was like going home to them. A popular sobriquet for Spain in Latin America, “la Madre Patria” supposedly holds no ideological meaning, but how do you untangle religious symbolism when it’s such a big part of culture and Read More
My family, friends, coworkers, wife, and those random people I sort of know on Facebook, asked the same exact question that you’re about to ask: “Why would anyone want to visit Nicaragua?” Here are the basic reasons to visit: It’s cheap. It has active volcanoes, and beaches. It isn’t too touristy. It has beautiful architecture. They Read More
Summertime means more family time, and for Latinos, this family often extends across national borders. Fellow Book of the Month members may remember the following lines: “Every summer Santo Domingo slaps the Diaspora engine into reverse, yanks back as many of its expelled children as it can…Like someone had sounded a general reverse evacuation order: Read More
Labeled the “Love” train for its infamous Missed Connections, the L line is the uber pick up place – especially between the two stops separating hipsters from Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. But when you step off the train, the place to see and be seen is Brooklyn. Signs of the borough’s Read More
If there were a time machine that could take you back to your childhood would you take it? While not all of our childhoods had an idyllic look or feel to them, there is a certain magic and charm in our childhood memories. There was no Disney World when I was a child and, even Read More
Some destinations are best approached from the deck of a cruise liner: the Norwegian fjords, the Mediterranean islands, and Alaska’s Inside Passage. Only then can you experience the wonder of a rising sun over nature’s majesty the way earlier explorers might have captured it, before the intrusion of man - where land encounters water’s edge. Alaska’s Read More
With Earth Day celebrated this week, the environment—and our role in protecting it—are top of mind as we plan summer family vacations. Inspired by Earth Day Network’s appeal for Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park, the “most biologically diverse place in the world,” why not start by getting to know our own national parks? America’s 58 national Read More
There is nothing stuffy about Puerto Rican culture. Boricuas know how to have a good time, and you never know what to expect. At the Saborea culinary festival last year, Food Network celebrity chef Robert Irvine heated up more than the sauce with his sexy striptease. And when Saborea returns to San Juan from April Read More
Not too long ago, the only acknowledgment of diversity at American theme parks was Disney World’s boat ride through a lineup of dolls in native garb singing, “It’s a small world…after all.” But, with the U.S. Hispanic population topping 50 million as of the 2010 census, change is in the air. Recent market trends show Read More