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In Explore/ Guatemala/ International Development
Abundance.

In the remote, rural communities outside Comitancillo, the dental and optometry brigade team stands together with community members. Being shoulder to shoulder helps us all…

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In Adventure/ Canada/ Explore/ USA
Girls on Top: Alaska

– Click/Swipe through the gallery above for more pics – This year’s #Girlsgoneintothewild trip – 53km and four nights on the Chilkoot Trail between Dyea,…

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In Explore/ For the WELL of it/ International Development/ Nicaragua/ Water Wells
No ‘only’ about it.

Sometimes I want the long version of a story. And sometimes I am eager to just hear the highlights. Sometimes I am satisfied to…

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In Adventure/ Explore/ USA
Crater Cankle

High socks required. This is what I gleaned from the youtube videos watched by iphone from inside a rental 1984 Westfalia pop-top van (named…

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In International Development/ Water Wells
Take-your-sister-to-work day

“You’ll be there to meet me at the airport, right?!” This plea from my sister, whose inexperience traveling solo – to a country where…

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In Explore/ International Development/ Nicaragua/ Water Wells
Just like Yalmar

– Click/Swipe through the gallery above for more pics – It is the big things that separate us. Miles. Circumstance. Opportunity. It is the little…

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In Adventure/ Explore/ USA
Havasupai How-To

Permits Entering the area is regulated. The Havasupai Tribe Tourist Enterprise is in charge here. Permits are (allegedly) available by calling these four numbers…

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In Adventure/ Explore/ USA
Can somebody carry me?!

– Click/Swipe through the gallery above for more pics – My sister tells the story all the time. The one about me being a whiny…

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In Adventure/ Explore/ USA
My Sharona

As we head north from Phoenix toward Sedona on the I-17 , My Sedona (to the tune of My Sharona, obviously) plays over and…

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In Explore/ International Development/ Water Wells
The greatest joy is seeing others experience it.

(Part 3 of 3. Part 1. Part 2. ) When Delania, member of the Pellizco Central Water Committee announces that the water well in her community,…

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