“Your Future Is Today” Quito is situated on a plateau within the Guayllabamba River basin on the eastern slope of…
Discovering New Worlds
Imagine visiting an exotic zoo coupled with a tropical aquarium. Except with no cages or tanks: each exhibit is its…
Anticipation Is Building…
“The Galápagos Islands may just inspire you to think differently about the world.” On the eve of our journey to…
A Dose of Humility
My iPhone was stolen this week. Right out of my pocket when riding the bus. The front pocket of my…
Baños
/bæn-yoʊs/ noun. Bathrooms. Thermal baths at the base of a volcano. A resort town nestled in central Ecuador. Our weekend…
Una Nueva Lengua
Call us naive — or perhaps a bit arrogant — but we were expecting more folks to speak English here…
A Myth Down the Drain
Ecuador sounds similar to Equator for a very good reason. Here in Quito, we are 0°11’40” (read: just barely) south…
Camp Hope
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” -Desmond Tutu We planned our…
The Boys’ “Top 5”
I’ve polled Connor and Keegan about the wildest things they’ve seen in our first few days here. Most of them…
My First Run in the Andes: 22 minutes of hell
In a parallel quest to become superhuman once back at sea level, I just barely survived my first run in…