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Traveling through Colombia offers abundance: mountain views, unfamiliar birds, cheap beer, and ripe mangos plucked from roadside trees. Waco has something less spectacular but more useful—driving your own car instead of relying on Uber, buying groceries without first rehearsing the transaction in Spanish, and knowing whether a place is really open without consulting three different social media accounts. The difference is not between adventure and boredom. It’s between discovering how another place works and already knowing how to live in your own. After four and a half months in South America, host Mark Long prepares to trade a cabin in the Andes overlooking Medellín for Texas heat, avocado toast with his wife, and impending jury duty. Along the way, a coffee farmer channels Barry White, and an openly resentful dog considers whether Mark’s household residency permit should be reinstated. ----- Hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode of Your Waco Weekend—and visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wacoinsider.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to sign up for The Weekly Dispatch newsletter.