A Blast of a Time

Archive Central America- QUETZAL
After saying goodbye to San Juan the beach and our new friend Tyler, who has been accommodating us, we made our way over to the island of Ometepe. The island is on the biggest lake in Central America. With its water covering 8,264 sq km makes it the 21st largest lake in the world . ITS BIG! We arrived to the island by a hour long ferry boat trip, then… Read More

Pun Pun and other fun

Archive Southeast Asia- SABAI
Hey everyone sorry for the lag time. We have spent around a month in the interesting city of Chiang Mai, Thailand. The five of us spend our time in different ways. -Brian has taken a Thai Massage course with Kuan Amanda. He has also taken some time to reflect on his different goals in life, such as his future coffee shop. -Amanda has done a variety of activities, the Thai… Read More

Different Demographics

Archive India- SHIVA
Walking through the streets of McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, home of the Tibetan Government and community in exile, it’s a far cry from the India we’ve grown accustomed to. Each of us is living with a Tibetan family where we sleep and eat breakfast and dinner but that is where the similarity of our schedules ends. During the day we peruse the various shops (holiday gifts!), pursue different internships, go on… Read More

Nothing But Good Times

Archive Central America- QUETZAL
All has been and is still going really well in San Juan. Our time is being spent eating, building solar paneled water heaters, surfing, playing games and just having a fun relaxing time. The past three nights some of us have witnessed the most beautiful breath taking sun sets with the sun seeming to melt into the sea. Some have watched from a bobbing board in the waves of the… Read More

Lake Titicaca

Archive South America- INTI
Here we are – it´s free travel time! We are in the tourist haven of Puno right now, super fried after our two weeks of spanish classes in Arequipa. Colca was incredible, as you could probably tell from the pics. After a 6 hour bus ride in a double decker, flying on all sides of the ¨road¨ through the most picturesque landscapes of the Peruvian mountains we arrived here with… Read More

New Beginnings

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Since our last post a lot has changed, but before I tell you about the present I should talk about how we finished off in San Marcos and what has happened. Our last day 4 of us (Dan, Bobby, Max and I) decided to doing some exploring and ventured off up into the Mountains behind San Marcos and found a gorgeous waterfall. That night we celebrated halloween. With all of… Read More

Goat blood and lions!

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
Where to begin? Some in the group said that the past couple weeks changed their lives. Some said it was the best week of their lives. Now I must endeavor to describe the group experience. The safari: Led by our beloved Godwin and Riche we poked our heads out of two Toyota Land Rovers and drove through The Terengerri National Park and Ngoroagora Crater. Thousand year old Boabob Trees shaded… Read More

Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambo…

Archive India- SHIVA
The first real group celebration we had in India was Olivia’s 19th birthday, which took place on the train to Delhi. We were living high in the AC Class for that train ride, compared to the non-AC we normally take. We surprised Olivia with an Indian favorite of chocolate balls made by a nice man named Papu from Varanasi, and shared the extra with the Indian residence in our compartment.We… Read More

A trek to relaxation

Archive Central America- QUETZAL
Hola amigos y familiaWe are writing from the San Marcos on the beautiful Lake Atitlan. After saying our goodbyes to Xela and all of our new acquaintances we headed off for our 3 day 28 mile trek to Lake Atitlan. On Saturday we all met at 6am with bags packed as light as we could and only what we needed for the trek. We headed off for our first day,… Read More

Greetings from Arequipa!

Archive South America- INTI
We have emerged from the jungle and now we have arrived in Perú! Our week in the Amazon was muy interesante. We stayed in a lodge on a ridge above a village on the Puyo-Pongo river, and our project for the week was to build the stairs to get to the lodge! The path was steep and slippery and in need of a lot of maitenance. We perfected our machete… Read More

Meditation Retreat

Archive Southeast Asia- SABAI
Right outside Chiang mai on an Eco-farm we met Matt. Matt was a retired wall street stock brocker whom found buddhism, moved to Thailand, and was here to teach us about meditation and yoga. We had a rigorous meditation schedule starting at 7am with meditation a break/morning yoga and breakfest, meditation and buddhism lectures, then a lunch break, back to meditation until dinner and then a night yoga session. After… Read More

Safari…HERE WE COME!

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
Habari, After an 8 hour, bumpy, dirty, and significantly awkward bus ride from Benako, we have finally reached Tanzania’s second largest city – Mwanza! It is absolutely gorgeous; we are surrounded by beautiful views of Lake Victoria and are preparing/stocking up for the next 3 weeks of exciting activities! We leave for our Safari in just a few days; everyone is EXTREMELY excited! Stay tuned for updates on all the… Read More

Scavenging

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
Ian and I (Kathryn) are traipsing around the beautiful city of Mwanza, and enjoying every boiling-hot second of it! We are practicing our Kiswahili with the locals, purchasing congas (sp?), mailing post-cards (expect one in the mail family!) and being led around by yet another Moses. Our hunt for lunch is about to draw us back into the heat! -Ian and Kathryn… Read More

In a hotel we can’t afford.

Archive East Africa- KIFARU
Dearest beloved readers, We are breaking a few social rules and asked a few favors of the locals for our endeavor. For instance we are using a residents only computer in a very cosmo hotel, and asked the kind receptionist if we could use her celly. Otherwise we love it here, it’s a little hot but it’s absolutely beautiful. Huge rocks and a lake-side own enraptured us all at the… Read More