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There was another blackbird singing at the crossroads. That was five crossroads and five singing blackbirds. Was this some kind of surveillance by the state?

We found ourselves on the edge of bandit country again, in a place called Bagpipes. They called it Gaiteiras but we knew what they meant. 

In the hierarchy of places to eat, a traditional casa de pasto is often down near the bottom of the pile, the opposite end of a Michelin-starred swanky joint...

A broken-hearted goatherder wandered the mountains, yearning for the power of flight so she could join her lover. 

There are, occasionally, times when you feel you have stepped out of your own life - which, you assume, has at least a passing relationship with reality - and...