Touchdown

The more you travel, the bigger the world becomes. Guess I’ll just keep traveling.

View from the boardwalk near the Original Breakfast Shed. FTB/Medill

From the U.S. to South Africa through Nicaragua and somehow here to Trinidad and Tobago, I need adventure. My way of finding it is by spinning the globe in a marriage of investigative and shoe-leather, beat-the-street reporting. I've only been committed to reporting for about a year, and I've already seen a lot on those streets. Sometimes the red-brown dirt beside the street is spattered with the blood of your source, sometimes it’s turned to dust as thousands of feet toyi-toyi, sometimes it's simply Sheridan Road along campus late at night as you ponder the angle of your education story...and sometimes it's a beach overlooking Buccoo Reef. These are the streets that hold the best stories, and you never know what's waiting down the block or around the corner. You never know until you get walking, that is.
 
This is Fritz's first time out of the country, but he decided to jump on a plane with me and saunter down to the Caribbean. Maybe he's crazy, maybe he just really likes the beach. Regardless, the two of us will be working together for the next month, investigating environmental issues and the economics and politics that affect them.

Hopefully we'll be able to make a difference with our reporting. At the very least we'll learn something and keep walking to our next destination and our next story. As for now, we're getting to work. We'll begin in Port of Spain, the capital, and work our way around the dual-island nation, talking to as many people as possible and seeing what there is to see.

Fritz and I will keep traveling and will keep reporting. So you just keep reading.
- MO