Columbia-Brandy You`re A Fine Girl
Cartagena · Coffee · Castle · Improbable Luck
Foreign LandThe Divine Payroll
I went out for my first cup of JOEse and came back sixty dollars richer. Cartagena had entered the ledger.
Arrival
Wherever I Go, Here I Am
From Shakira, whose hips do not lie, to the darker mythology attached to the Cali Cartel, Colombia arrived already carrying stories.
But wherever I went, there I was.
This time: Cartagena.
First Cup of JOEse
Juan Valdez Pays Out
I went for my first cup of coffee and found three twenty-dollar bills on the street.
Probably counterfeit, I joked.
That was sixty dollars, found before the day had properly started.
It looked like I was on the Divine Payroll again.
The Luck Equation
Coffee + Coincidence + Attention = The Divine Payroll
Cartagena · November 25, 2009
Street-Level Arrival
Cruise Archive
The Route Before Cartagena
Old City
Castle, Church, Standard Stuff
The joke is pure Ed Reif: compress the monumental into a shrug and let the photograph disagree.
Three Field Videos
Cartagena in Motion
Field Video 01
Arrival Frame
Field Video 02
Old City Movement
Field Video 03
The Day Continues
What the Day Delivered
Three Versions of Cartagena
The country arrives first through the stories the world already tells about it.
The personal story begins when the street interrupts the itinerary.
The standard tour becomes memorable because of what happened before it.