My travel dream come true – following Gabriel García Márquez’s footsteps in Cartagena, Colombia. Great thanks to Big Five Tours & Expeditions for making it happen. Much gratitude, too, to my guide, Will Salazar Oviedo, for sharing my obsession with Gabo’s words and for completely getting why standing below Fermina Daza’s balcony made me smile. For anyone else hoping to explore the Nobel Prize-winning author’s literary landscape in Cartagena, “Real Magic,” a piece I photographed and penned for the April 2017 issue of Virtuoso Traveler, maps out a walking tour with stops at eight key locations significant to his life and works.

For more on Colombia, see my 2/8/17 post, Colombia On The Cusp.