James Luckey-Lange has been everywhere. The Arctic Circle. The southern tip of South America. Haiti, where he sold fruit at a roadside stand. Nicaragua, where he taught martial arts. He'd adopted a husky in Alaska, buried him in Patagonia, lost his father shortly after, and kept going anyway. He was the son of Q Lazzarus — the singer behind "Goodbye Horses" from The Silence of the Lambs — and after losing her in 2022, he hit the road and never really stopped. There was just one country left in the continental Americas he hadn't visited. Venezuela. Every warning sign was there. The U.S. government had been telling Americans to stay out. The regime had a track record of grabbing Americans and using them as political pawns. James knew all of this. He crossed the border anyway — on the back of a motorcycle taxi from Brazil — and was detained the next day.