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Most people grab their coffee to-go, fill it with sugar, then repeat the next day, but do you know where your coffee comes from? I mean the good, real kind. Not the vente latte or McCafé you line up for at the drive-thru. On my recent trip to Colombia...

Watching Narcos on Netflix seriously intensified my curiosity and intrigue about Colombia. I felt a little guilty about this. Most Colombians hate the show and feel it has given them the wrong attention. It’s understandable – life under notorious drug...

I’ve talked before about Colombia being a far cry from its dark past. Even if narco tourism is growing, Medellin is actually full of peaceful and positive transformation, rebuilding itself through things like art, coffee, and tourism instead of drugs...

“Don’t go to Colombia” they said. “It’s risky and unsafe,” we were warned. Understandably so. Colombia’s images are tainted of brutal violence, deadly turf wars and constant gunfire. We watched the first season of Narcos and knew we were entering a place...

When we spent one month living in Medellin we drank a lot of Colombian coffee and stuffed our bellies eating a lot of Paisa food (Paisa is what they call people from Medellin and the Antioquia region). In Colombia, the dollar goes far here. We were able...