There I was stranded in a section of a city that I did not know, alone, with a limited amount of cash in hand and no credit card, my friends gone, no metro access and, at the time, very little confidence in my ability to speak and understand the Spanish language.

“The only way to truly understand a city you must lose yourself within it.” I find myself saying this more and more for just about every place that I travel to no matter where in the world it happens to be but little do most people know where that saying originated.