On the way into Mexico City on Saturday we unwittingly were breaking the law with a foreign license plate.

Having a haircut with an unknown hairdresser requires detachment. * Cortar o cabelo com alguém desconhecido requer desapego.

Many people have asked us how we went to Cuba. For Americans it is both alluring and confusing as we were not allowed to go for so long. You're not supposed to just go to Cuba to drink Daiquiris on the beach.

We arrived in a small town west of Havana called Viñales after a very hot taxi ride with some Spaniards from Barcelona. Before the trip, we spent a couple hours with Lupita, a friend of Simone's, getting soaked in the rain

The Cherokee are Native Americans from the Southeastern United States. They are descendants of the Mound Builders and were one of the five civilized tribes to be forcibly removed to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in 1838.

In downtown New Haven, Connecticut, while we were pulling out of our parking space, an irate transvestite wound up and enthusiastically flipped someone the bird, one, two, a third time.

Estamos em Boston. Primeira surpresa: foi só sair de Vermont e cruzar para o vizinho do sul, Massachusetts, que encontramos uma estação de rádio em português! E não apenas uma.

I was wrapping a pot with newspaper before putting it in the cabinet when I decided to suggest, half incredulously: Estava embrulhando uma panela com jornal, antes de guardá-la no armário, quando sugeri, meio incrédula: