I did not move here. I am from here.

My father moved freight out of La Unión, ninety minutes east of Medellín, and I started going with him when I was thirteen. Loads that had to be somewhere by a certain hour, and were. That is the only real lesson in this work, and I had it a decade before I needed it.

The rest was an accident. An uncle started flying down from Orlando when I was seventeen and somebody had to look after him. I learned English because he did not speak Spanish and there was no way around it. By the end of that year I understood that showing a foreigner a good week was a thing you could be paid for.

So I went to the coast and did it for three years. Then I came back, in 2022, and I have not done anything else since.

I am twenty-three. That is either a problem or it is ten years of working and six of hosting, depending on what you are counting.