The thing to do on a Sunday afternoon in Lima, Peru is sit around eating ceviche and drinking cold cervezas. These three fellows lingered at El Muelle cebichería even longer than Lauren and I did.
From block after block of murals in the artsy Barranco neighborhood, to temporary art cubes set up in parks in Miraflores, to the occasional illicit graffiti, tag, stencil, or sticker, Lima, Peru is awash in street art.
Looking a bit embarrassed, Elder takes a deep breath before admitting, “I’ve never had cuy. Eeeeh! Just to see it, with the claws and the teeth! I want to try it. I’m working up to it. I love meat. But…
It’s been just about two years since we hit pause on our travel stories, photos, and art here on Ephemerratic. During that time, while working to fill our round-the-world-depleted bank accounts back up, Todd and I have road-tripped, traveled abroad,…
Though we returned from our round-the-world trip several months ago, Todd and I are still updating Ephemerratic with stories and images from the global road— “Yeah, right,” you harrumph. Gah! We’re caught! The real world has sunk its sharp little…
As our storytelling heads into China and its cuisine that often challenges the Western imagination of what is edible versus what is best left for grinding into hotdogs, I can’t help but think about cultural food norms. We encountered plenty…
Sometimes my mind wanders off from Asia and starts thinking about the next trip. In those moments, I’m happy to be able to find a guest blogging gig on other travel sites like The Brooklyn Nomad. In “Festivals for Pyromaniacs”…
Fantastic frog figurine from the Hong Kong Museum of Art | Photo by Lauren Girardin The Ratings Explained: YEH – Like a hot, fresh baked egg tart. YEHs are as good as you can get, especially for your backpacker buck,…
The social melee in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok neighborhood induces our first bout of culture shock on this trip. Most of the past three months we’ve traveled slowly overland through swaths of mellow and, relative to Hong Kong, underpopulated Southeast…
What would you do if $22,000 suddenly appeared in your life? Would you spend it on stuff? Gamble it away in the stock market? (C’mon, don’t you ever learn?) Or, would you, like Christina Ammon, invest it in people? People…
