Posts Tagged ‘Guatemala’
Rambling Traveler: An Interview with Stacy
Travel does not necessarily have to involve a lot of money or a lot of time. Nor does it need to involve a flight overseas. Truly rewarding travel experiences can be enjoyed much closer to home, as people like Stacy from Rambling Traveler will testify. Many of her trips are day trips or weekends away around her home in Minnesota, though she also takes every opportunity she can get to head further afield, whether it be a volunteering trip down to Guatemala or an upcoming trip to Scotland.
Hope and Healing: An Interview with Mark and Peggy Shrime
One of the most popular trends in modern travel is voluntourism. One part travel, one part volunteering, voluntourism offers travellers a way to delve deeper into a place while also making it possible to support the local community in some small (or large) way.
Mark and Peggy's trip is a perfect example of voluntourism. A pair of physicians from New York City, they are on a one-year trip around the world, combining their love for travel with their desire to offer their medical skills as volunteers. After 6 months of roaming the globe, they will spend another 6 months in Sierra Leone, where they will volunteer with Mercy Ships, a charity providing free specialised health care to the Sierra Leoneans.
