Auntie Orn’s Organic Cooking Class – Chiang Mai, Thailand
While in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we had the opportunity to attend Auntie Orn’s Organic Family Cooking class. The class takes place on a organic farm just outside of the city, giving participants the opportunity to see a working organic farm in action. Auntie Orn’s family and helpers are all some of the nicest people you […]
Organic Farming in Chiang Mai with Live It Global
Organic Farming in Chiang Mai with Live It Global One of our days in Chiang Mai was spent helping our friend Julie check out organic farms for her new organization, Live It Global. Organic farming in Chiang Mai is becoming more popular, thanks to several people who are pushing the community in that direction. There […]
Cameron Highlands – Tea Country
On our way to the Cameron Highlands in the mountains of central Malaysia, we experienced our first breaths of cool air in some weeks. Everything was green and full of life as our bus wound its way slowly up and up, honking before the tight turns to warn oncoming traffic that we wouldn’t be slowing […]
Cuba Travel Highlights
Cuba Travel Highlights Here is a long-overdue short video from our travels through Cuba in January 2017. Cuba was one of the countries most devastated by recent hurricanes. They have been largely skipped in the international aid effort and the United States makes it nearly impossible to help them in any way. We are researching […]
We end where we began?
Summing up La Aventura Project in one post has left us here staring at a blank page for weeks now. The same questions run through our heads: “What did we do?” and, “What did we accomplish?” The jump back into life in the USA was quick, and we were immediately left with little time outside […]
Life in the banana-lands
Other long-term travelers out there might be familiar with the feeling of “the travel grind.” To me, it’s how you feel when traveling becomes too routine and nothing feels fresh anymore. We were kind of suffering from it in Panamá as we were mostly sticking to big touristy sites due to lack of time. Nothing […]
1/3 of our South American Travel Highlights – Medellin
As of January 27, we’ve been in South America for three months! That’s about 1/3 of the total time we’ll be down here (assuming money lasts) so it’s quite a milestone. Sometimes I feel like we’ve been on the road forever and other times it feels like it was just yesterday we landed in Medellin. […]
Tungurahua Tea Room
After leaving Baños, I think that now is a good time to write about the second WWOOFing experience of our journey, which occurred there… We arrived in the afternoon on a bus and took a quick taxi ride to the edge of town. The farm is really only a 10-15min walk from central Baños, but […]
WWOOFing at Finca Campo Bello in Colombia
WWOOFing at Finca Campo Bello in Colombia Our first WWOOF experience at Finca Campo Bello outside San Agustín, Colombia, was pretty easy sailing. And by easy, I mean, we really hardly did any work! We stayed with a large Colombian family on their big coffee farm. The house was rustic and largely open air, although […]
Coffee Contemplations from Colombia
Coffee Contemplations from Colombia You drink it everyday, but what do you really know about it? After spending time on the farm in San Agustín, I wanted to take a second to write about coffee. Coffee comes from a short tree, you might called it a bush. A mature plant is about as tall as […]