"I was OK with the idea of getting 'board to death' in my new beach life in Miami, Florida, like most of my colleagues had advised me. After seven years of covering war, Islamist insurgencies and natural disasters, no more life-threatening adventures, they all told me," writes Gianrigo Marletta, a video journalist who has just arrived in Miami after seven years of being based in Indonesia.
"So how did it happen that barely month after my arrival, here I was again, chasing lava spewing out of yet another angry volcano?"