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
TBT: On the Rhine—Bacharach Excerpt taken from Europe 2010: Germany + Neighbors, Italy #3 After nearly 2 hours [on the train from Frankfurt] I stepped out into the greetings of a sign that read Bacharach. I still don’t know how to pronounce it. We dragged our luggage on the bumby roads and made our way to Pension… Read More
TBT: Candid Rambles and Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain Excerpt taken from Spain and Portugal, 2004. 8 eight Ramblas Street and the Harbor My family was walking down a street called ramblas Street. On the street people were selling baby animals for instance a baby chick for one €uro! My mom wanted a chick. But before that, we had seen… Read More
TBT: Poorly Spelled Accounts of Venice and Florence, Italy Excerpt from Italy! A True Book, 2003. 6 Venice the city that’s almost floued! In Venes Venes has one hundred an eighty Ilends. It has hundreds of piges. There a lot of gondloes. Gondlouse are a kind of boat. if you lived in Venes when you open the door water may come in and a boat… Read More
Girls Getaway: Georgia My girlfriends and I were tired of the summer heat and needed a change in scenery. Knowing what we were looking for didn’t include beer and chubbies, we threw together a trip to Jack’s River. It wasn’t girls only—you just had to not be a total sleazebag. We managed to mostly stay on… Read More
I Birthed This Blog Because… I was always a travel writer. It’s true. Back up to my first grade teacher handing me a blank booklet shortly before my dad took me to China to visit family for the first time: life changed forever. Instantaneously I knew I wanted both pictures and hand-written entries filling its pages. My journals quickly… Read More