SATW award-winning travel and food journalist Karen Catchpole specializes in Latin America. Her work has appeared in Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, Afar, the WSJ Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, The Dallas Morning News, The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, BBC Travel, Roads and Kingdoms, Slate, and many other outlets. Follow Karen’s road trip through the Americas at trans-americas.com/blog, as her reporting continues through North, Central and South America.