Category: Tangents

Sunset at Casa Puente 2

Tangents

Pirate Satellite Antenna

Fate. Love. Luck. Our lives seem to be defined by four-letter words, until we die and five letters show up to close the curtains. Growing up in what I’ve come to affectionately call “Shitville”,...

School kids 4

Tangents

A+B = Me

The first day of school. I remember father’s waist, and a strange woman’s larger waist close by, and how both sounded cordial and good-natured as they exchanged pleasantries about the weather or, more relevantly,...

Amsterdam ambulances 18

Tangents

Tea and Paracetamol

As the car sped through the narrow streets of San Cristóbal on the way to Hospital Colonial, I huddled feverishly in the backseat, grinding my teeth while the body I thought I owned shook...

Capture the Color WHITE 2

Tangents

Capture the Color 2013

Photography is one of the best ways to keep travel memories alive. We’re wannabe photographers, and have the equipment to match, but we still try to capture a bit of the colors and history...

Koh Rong sunset 0

Tangents

There Is No Paradise

White sandy beaches. Palm trees. Azure skies. An infinity pool overlooking a turquoise ocean. Maybe a cocktail with an umbrella in it, pink and buoyant. Paradise. Is it? Although the versions of holiday paradise...

puerto angelito in august 0

Tangents

In August

There is something about August. It shimmies between the roughest and the sweetest time of year, careless yet definite. Rooted in sultry Roman ancestry, it has now become suffused with the immateriality of teenage...