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Upon re-declaring her independence at age 29, Lorraine Caputo packed her trusty Rocinante (so her knapsack's called) and began traipsing throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia. When she is not travelling and writing, Lorraine works as a freelance researcher, editor, translator and radio programmer--as well as the occasional odd hotel chambermaid and dishwasher. She would never leave home without her “traveling books of poetry”—six small notebooks, hand-bound with old shoelaces—to fill them with more stories and poems of places and people she comes to know and to share whenever, wherever she may. Lorraine and Rocinante have been living and working in Latin America since 2002.

 

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Lorraine Caputo's V!VA List Articles

V!VA Latin

  • Catemaco

    Mar 09, 2006 - Mexico

    To the edge of a blue lake in an ancient volcanic crater, jade jungle hills fall. Bird song echoes through ......

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  • Mérida

    Mar 08, 2006 - Venezuela

    The deluge ends as a pale sun dawns over the ageless mountains. Clouds rise up the forest-brocade mountainsides, into the ......

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  • Cult of the Afro-Venezuelan Saints

    Mar 08, 2006 - Venezuela

    Ay, my father San Antonio Where are you, I don’t see you I’ve come to sing with him And I’ll ......

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Lorraine Caputo's Guide Book Entries

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Destinations

  • Pisagua

    Jun 29, 2009 - Pisagua, Chile

    The new Ruta A-40 slices westward across the desert. Quebradas fracture this landscape that on occasion is used by the ......

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  • Gigante de Atacama

    Jun 29, 2009 - Huara, Chile

    On the side of Cerro Unitas, a mosaic-eyed man with upraised hands stares out across the arid plain. Was this ......

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  • Huara

    Jun 29, 2009 - Huara, Chile

    Back in the days of the salitreras, Huara was known as the place for miners to come for some R ......

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Hotels

  • Hotel Terrado Suites

    Jun 29, 2009 - Iquique, Chile

    Hotel Terrado Suites is a high-rise hotel on the Cavancha Peninsula. The lobby is laid in tri-color marble. Common areas ......

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  • Hotel de la Plaza

    Jun 29, 2009 - Iquique, Chile

    Hotel de la Plaza finds its place in one of the salitre-era mansions on the pedestrian mall, Baquedano. Here travelers ......

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  • Hostal North House

    Jun 29, 2009 - Iquique, Chile

    Close to the beach, Hostal North House is in a near-century-old house that is well-kept. Natural wood gleams throughout this ......

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Restaurants

  • New Mango’s Club

    Jun 29, 2009 - Iquique, Chile

    Friday and Saturday nights, salsa reigns at New Mango’s Club. A DJ spins the wax from 10 p.m. until the ......

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  • Club Democrático

    Jun 29, 2009 - Iquique, Chile

    On Friday and Saturday nights there’s a place you can go to hear live jazz in Iquique: Club Democrático. It’s ......

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  • Café Split

    Jun 29, 2009 - Iquique, Chile

    Café Split may be what the awning says above the patio, but everyone knows this as the Club Croata. Still ......

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