Paso a Paso

Food, Adventure, Language and Brain Fatigue

I understand why American tourists rarely bother to try to speak the languages of those countries they visit: It can be frustrating, it’s work, and it hurts. Far easier to wrap yourself in a linguistic cocoon, blissfully passing the days of your vacation in the sunshine sipping a cocktail on the beach.

I am strenuously trying to not be that sort of visi…