The Weekly Brew

Sunsets and simplicity in Same

One final trip in Ecuador to debrief our time spent abroad at the stunning beach of Same. Per Living and Learning law, we left from our...

Machu Picchu, markets, and mines...

Peru in three days. Saturday, April 23 we departed from Quito, Ecuador to Lima, Peru around 9 in the evening. Arriving in Lima, we found...

The Galapagos Islands...

and all of their God-given glory as experienced through the eyes of a grateful gringa. Saturday morning. We arose at the butt crack of...

Jungle cruises and labor bruises

This past week I was so generously lent a pretty special pair of yellow rain boots by the Living and Learning program... I also went to...

So we slept in baptismal robes... or something like that

The crater lake that I had been encouraged to visit even prior to arriving to Ecuador. Located most casually in a crater in a volcano,...

La quinceañera en Ibarra

I’ve been quite horrible at keeping up with the “weekly” blog posts because life abroad has been filled to the brim; however, my first...

Cómo se, Dalai, Kendrick, y Tina

If it wasn't readily apparent to you, these are the names of llamas. Cómo se Llama, Dalai Llama, Kendrick Llamar, and of course, Tina....