Sup guys, it´s Emily. Again. In light of us having about a month left in Central America, I thought I´d share an important lesson that I´ve learned the hard way: that no matter where you are, who you´re with, or what you´re doing, you have to walk.It seems simple, the act of walking. You put one foot in front of the other, you move yourself forward through space and time.… Read More
Dearest parientes y amigos,
This week we started volunteering with an awesome and inspiring organization called Aldea Yanapay. The organization was started by a man named Yuri and has been successfully surviving for at least half a decade. Its purpose is to act as a social project for the children without opportunities of Cuzco. It was created for the kids and as Yuri says, the kids are always and forever… Read More
As Carpe Diem is an ongoing program, it is very important to us to maintain the friendships we make along the way. While we may be done with our volunteer work at the end of our stay, every one of the volunteer groups we help labors on in their efforts to make this world a better place. For this reason we would like to revisit a couple of these wonderful… Read More
Hey friends and family!
This weekend we got the awesome opportunity to visit the ancient Sacred Valley. The place is brimming with visual history in the form of ruins.
We left in a private bus around 9 in the morning on Saturday. Our first Incan destination was Moray. Moray consists of circular terrace ruins with a mystery surrounding their purpose. Some suppose that it was used as a lab to… Read More
Howdy yall! We have had a very busy week since you last heard from us. We started off in Rotorua relaxing before we took off for the Maori restoration project. During that time we went zorbing. For those of you that don’t know what zorbing is, it’s where individuals leap into a giant hampster ball spritzed with water and are pushed down a hill. Silly boys, Ross and Penrod forced… Read More
It’s been an intense couple of days.
On Friday, we all took our time to see the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The museum was really interesting to say the least. It walks you through the history of Rwanda in relation to the 1994 genocide. There was so much information is was nearly impossible to process it all in one sitting. Even today, a people are going back for round two.
Yesterday,… Read More
Hola amigos! Greg and Bridget here with the word on the past week of our travels. We had our three day trek last weekend and celebrated Shayna’s birthday on the second day with vegan chocolate cake that Bridget and Jasmine baked. The trek was AMAZING! We walked 24 miles total up and down mountains through rivers leaving blood sweat and tears behind. We stayed in rural villages each night sleeping… Read More
¡Hola amigos y familia! This is Becca reporting from a scorching hot but beautiful León. It has been a very busy week, what with adjusting to a new location, but I think everyone has officially settled in and is having a great time!Like Rachael said, we began our time in León by meeting our families. Unlike the homestay situation in Xela, the majority of us are staying two to a… Read More
Hey Friends and Family,
Unfortunately, we´ve been having trouble putting up pictures of our recent endeavors, which truly pains us because we´ve wanted to share our trek with you. As an alternative, we asked everyone to tell us their most beautiful moment on the trek to try and paint as clear of a picture for ya´ll as we can. After we got everyone´s responses, we figured out the blog. Enjoy!… Read More
We arrived in Rwanda yesterday (some of us by foot!) and drove into Kigali. Of course, it wasn’t a completely hassle-free experience. Chris was stopped at the Rwandan entrance. The man pointed at his signature in his passport, and the one on the form and said that the difference in the tilt of the “C” was suspicious. That, piled on top of the fact that Chris has cut his hair… Read More
Greetings from Rishikesh, the world’s “capital for yoga,” not to mention some incredible white water rafting, mini cows and an array of other great wildlife. Rishikesh sits on the beautiful ganga, sparkling brilliantly and clean (as clean as it gets here in India) as it makes its way through this beautiful canyon. Yesterday the crew took a day trip down the river, rafting with a company called “Red Chilli.” Our… Read More
I find that sometimes it is those completely unplanned, random moments that stick with me throughout the trip. It might be squeezing into a horse trailer on the way to the farm or having a conversation about organic food with Graham (the owner) or even finding yourself in a cemetery on Halloween surrounded by people you’ve come to know and love. Clearly our time on the farm was indeed… Read More
Greetings from Southeast Asia!
The past week was spent in the beautiful city of Chiang Mai, Thailand. We spent the week taking a variety of classes: thai cooking, jewelery making, Muay Thai (well we wanted to try it, but to keep a long story short, it was an epic fail). Our first night in Chiang Mai landed on Camille’s birthday, so to celebrate some of us went out to a… Read More
Hello Friends and Family, this is Rachael blogging from Leon, Nicaragua. This last week or so has been busy since we left Chicacnab, in the cloud forest that you heard about from Kelley.From Chicacnab we hiked a couple miles down a muddy slippery mountain side (my feet just did not seem to want to stay under me) then took a bus to Coban where we spent the night, showered the… Read More
After a night in the ghostown that was Wellington, we headed off on our 5hour bus ride to the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuit Center. The week was spent doing some fun and unusual activities. The first day we went streaming up a river, knee deep, for some of us short people waist deep, and for others who fell in head deep. Without too many bumps and bruises, we made… Read More
Hello friends and family,Sorry it’s taken so long to get our free travel blog out (which seems like forever ago now…) but it is finally here! After spending two magnificant days in Queenstown exploring the city and eating delicious Fergbergers and Fish &Chips;, the group decided to venture out on two different free travel options.Part of the group- MoMo and the minors (aka Simone, Samira, and Gabe)-decided to rent a… Read More
What’s up guys, it’s Emily again. That’s right, you haven’t gotten rid of me yet. And don’t think you’re going to, because for the rest of the trip, you’ll be hearing from me once a week. That’s seven blogs. Get excited. Anyway, to begin. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but we’ve encountered quite a bit of wildlife lately, starting in Chicacnab. After being assaulted by insects… Read More
Hello all!
This past week we did a 4 day trek through Huascaran National Park in Peru. The highest altitute we reached was 15,500 feet. Although we had some cases of altitude sickness, we all had a great time. The pictures we took can describe how incredible it was better than we ever could with words. We spent the night in Huaraz and caught a bus to Lima in the… Read More
