Amigo Gringo made the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section this past week. Now more people than ever know that I am using my fancy degrees to their utmost, spilling yogurt on people in the subway and explaining English curse words to Brazilians.
When Your Child Is the Travel Agent
As the guest Getaway columnist, I write about when children (like my nephew Leo) take over family trip-planning. (Disaster does not ensue.)
Tips for Olympic Travelers: Rio and Beyond
I offer some advice from veteran Olympics fans on how best to take advantage of the games, and travel to Rio to see how to put their advice into action.
Amigo Gringo on Brazil’s “Tonight Show”
The “Programa do Jô” is Brazil’s Tonight Show, hosted by Jô Soares under one name or another since 1988. I had the honor of appearing in this, his final season, to talk about Brazilian food, Brazilian people, and Amigo Gringo.
How to Pretend to Be a New Yorker
In one of our favorite recent videos, we teach Brazilians some surefire ways to make people think you’re a New Yorker. Eating a cupcake from Magnolia Bakery is not one of them.
Turista brasileiro é mais flexível que o americano, diz “Amigo Gringo” (Brazilian Tourists Are More Flexible than American Tourists, Says “Amigo Gringo”)
Folha de S. Paulo, the Western Hemisphere’s largest city’s largest newspaper, published an interview in which I (sort of) said Brazilians are better travelers than Americans. (Really, just sort of, but it’s in the headline, so it must be true.)
An Informed Traveler Is a Safe Traveler
Why travelers are generally so terrible about assessing risk when they travel. Or, why non-pregnant Olympics fans who fear zika more than dengue have already been infected – by the media.
My Final Frugal Column: High and Low Budget Ecuador
I tried luxury travel for a few days and, though I can see why people like it, went back for a final few days of adventure on the cheap, bussing it for a homestay with a Uno-playing indigenous family and visiting the forgotten town of Quingeo.
Parents in Tow, Finding a Cheap and Charming Corner of Panama
For the fifth and final time as Frugal Traveler, I take my brave parents on the road and subject them to my budget: Nicaragua, Croatia, Norway, Vancouver and now Panama.
Going to Germany – As a Newly Minted Citizen
My dad left Germany as a young child in the 1930s, fleeing the Nazi regime. He and all his descendants – my brother, nephews and I – just became citizens. I was the first to go back since – and wanted to choose the most traditional Germany I could find.