Bogotá, South America
Bogotá: Clouds, Cold and Chicha Soul
The Altitude Ambush: Sitting at 2,640 meters, Bogotá leaves most visitors winded after two flights of stairs on day one - locals will tell you to skip the co…
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Boston, North America
Boston: Freedom Trail & Red Sox Soul
The Masshole Behind the Wheel: Bostonians drive like the rules of the road are suggestions - rolling stops, aggressive merges, and horn-honking the instant a…
Helsinki, Northern Europe
Helsinki: Sauna, Sisu & Baltic Light
Silence Is a Feature, Not a Bug: Finns don't fill gaps with small talk - a bus full of people standing 1.5 meters apart in total silence is normal, not ruden…
Montevideo, South America
Montevideo: Rambla, Mate & Candombe Soul
Mate Everywhere, Always: Locals carry a thermos of hot water under one arm and a mate gourd in the other hand at all hours - on the bus, walking the Rambla, …
Montreal, North America
Montreal: Bilingual Soul of North America
The Language Switch: Locals size you up in half a second and greet you with "Bonjour-Hi" - respond in whichever language feels natural and the conversation c…
Greeley, North America
Greeley: Utopian Colony on the Colorado Plains
Born Bone Dry: Greeley was founded in 1870 by Nathan Meeker, an agricultural editor for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, as the Union Colony - a strict tem…