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When Morante de la Puebla hit the ground during last year's Feria de Otoño, I saw what many others did. As he recovered from a tough cogida, Morante's face revealed a man suddenly realising he was an old man in a young man's profession. At forty-five years old, the hits, cogidas, and cornadas hit harder and took longer to heal than they did ten years before.

Border controls like this one are a fact of life for long-term travellers like me. As Americans, we have an idealised view of what international travel looks like as we take our annual two-week vacation to popular tourism destinations. We are often waived through without serious inspection, our tourism dollars more valuable than customs regulations. I wasn't visiting tourism hotspots; I was visiting countries both on and off the beaten path.