Money, adventure seeking, curiosity, lots of reasons. For most people, most of the time, one can have a somewhat ‘normal’ life even in the worst dictatorships,

Money, adventure seeking, curiosity, lots of reasons. For most people, most of the time, one can have a somewhat ‘normal’ life even in the worst dictatorships, even in the middle of active war zones. Having an American passport is a tremendous asset because you can just leave for the most part, unless you get caught up in politics, for some reason (a small risk for most people if they don’t go out of their way to draw attention). I spent quite a bit of time in Nicaragua which has an authoritarian communist government and on the surface, it seems like any other Central American country. I’m sure I’d notice more problems if I got political, but just being there exploring for a month or so, it seemed okay.