To the top!
Without invitation, the wind crawled inside my Ark’teryx jacket and wrapped its cold, invisible tentacles around me. I was snug in between two lichen-studded boulders in a little nest of paramo...
Expat Life
How the United States is taxing some expatriates out of their citizenship
By Ann Marie Miller You might not know it, but U.S. citizens are ditching their status as Americans in droves. “Citizide” is...
Ecuador is a birdwatcher’s paradise with the highest density of bird species on earth
By Noah Strycker “Maria! Maria!” yells Ángel Paz, who stands at my shou...
Pandemic Profiles: Nurse helps fellow expats through illness and depression; To travel or not to travel; A taxi driver’s new role; Minding the cafe
Editor’s note: This is the second in an ongoing series that e...
Life becomes expendable in the time of Covid
When Becky learned of her diagnosis in January, she was filled with dread. Her first brawl with breast cancer began nearly 30 years before but she remembered eve...
Las Margaritas
The windy places have always been the lonely places. Maybe that’s because folks don’t like the wind too much. I sure don’t. It’s like a nagging fishwife, you just can’t get away fro...
How to be a good expat caregiver
By Miriam Drake First and foremost, be good to yourself. I cannot emphasize this enough! Ask yourself, “Without me, where would my patient be?” The point to rememb...
The long road home to a land of broken promises
I arrived at Plazoleta Cruz Del Vado on a late afternoon last week in time to watch a flock of clouds winging west towards the sea; the evening sun pulling th...
Trapped by draconian Covid-19 rules and growing prejudice, many expats say ‘I just want to go home’
By Liz Rowlinson Last month Tara and her family moved into a new home in rural Dorset after 12 years as expat...
Cuenca Pandemic Profiles: An expat and two Cuencanos tell how they’ve fared during Covid-19
Editor’s note: This is the first in a multi-part series examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the l...
