As my three-year nomadic journey comes to a close in July, I want to write a reflection on the past 15 months—one that weaves together travel, identity, belonging, aging, freedom, and artistic transformation. I wrote a similar story that reflected both my early travel experiences and what it took to get started (see link below). After 14 months of traveling across three continents with a 2-month return to the United States, I decided that for the remaining 19 months on the road, the focus would be mostly on Latin America.
As a Puerto Rican woman traveling through Latin America, you are not quite an outsider and not quite an insider. While we share a language and cultural similarities, each country reveals its own history, politics, traditions, and social realities….