Sophistonauts Are Marching to Colombia
The latest issue of the New York Times Style magazine dropped this Sunday, and we dug in to find out where the beautiful people are maxing and relaxing these days. Turns out Cartagena is the newest hot spot for:
'sophistonauts' -- those wide-roaming urban nomads, often third-culture kids, expats or grown-up diplo-brats who tend to live outside their countries (plural!) of citizenship and bounce around a social web connecting them to equally geographically flexible, curious confreres
Pardon us while we stop laughing over this contrived trend. Now, we'll give some credit to Tim Parsa, who fancifully discusses Cartagena's past as a slave-trading center. He even talks to the mayor's press attache, who rips out some choice anti-U.S. government rhetoric: "You gringos give us these narco-problems because you love our cocaine."
Guess that explains all "sophistonauts" we meet in the article. There's the half-French, half-Mexican party princess from Buenos Aires. There's her friend, the Colombian who gets wasted, dances all night and hangs on the beach. And don't forget the Swiss-Mexican photographer who thinks the city's beyond chic.
Just remember, none of them are there for the Colombian Marching Powder--"cheap, pure and easy to procure." Got it?
[Photo: *L*u*z*a*]
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