A Personal Update: Around the World in 2,190 Days Today is Day 173. And for 172 days there has been a dire need to explain the following sentence: On February 7th, 2018, I set off for six years of solo female travel around the world. It’s a bit ridiculous that I only just now got around to this, but until May 8th,… Read More
Backpack Ecuador Ecuador invites the rest of the world to come have a look. The country’s 2014 tourism campaign, All You Need Is Ecuador, boasts that they really do have it all: the Andes, the Amazon, the Pacific, and the Galapagos. I associate this country with hummingbirds, expats, striped popsicles, and the color green. … Read More
Atacames This small beach town off the northern coast of Ecuador was the base for 80 premed students including myself on our Spring Break. With a population sitting around 11,000 and located within the Esmeraldas province, Atacames can be reached via bus from major cities and hubs. It’s hot, run down, we walked everywhere… and that was precisely the charm… Read More
Medical Volunteering In The Esmeraldas Province I joined my university’s MEDLIFE chapter for our first South American visit over my freshman spring break. Each day we set up a mobile clinic at different sites around the underprivileged local community. Together, our group benefitted 1,578 patients in one week. One of the coolest things was that the doctors were Ecuadorean, removing any culture gap and… Read More
Quito In A Day After a week of medical volunteer work, my wing woman and I made the most of our last day in Ecuador. The organization said we’d have to give up protection by them and we said fine. Then it was just us and the capital city. La Mitad Del Mundo It’s hard… Read More