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Our new home in Thailand! by Tyler

Sigh...

Our BRILLIANT new home in Thailand! (Or should I say new new home. Details coming soon in video form.)

Includes:

Two houses (yes, two separate houses!)
3 bathroom, 3 bedrooms
TV, breakfast nook, air conditioner, internet
And two of the sweetest, warmest landlords ever! (PS: what’s with Asian Mama’s always wanting to feed me? Shoo… I aint complainin’)

Cost:

$227.00 a month! (split 6 ways.)
Nice.

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IN WONDERLAND by Laurene

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One Sunday as we were walking around El Centro Histórico, we heard some lively folklore music coming from la Plaza Grande. From the distance, all I could see was patches of bright colors on a stage. As we got closer, the dancers looked like dolls with pleated skirts over their heads.

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AFTER ANIMALS, THE PEOPLE! by Laurene

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After animals, the people!

Here is a brief recap of my last two weeks of volunteering before coming back to Quito.

After two weeks of taking care of animals in the rainforest, I decided to do what I like most: meet the locals! I spent one week in a community called ”El Paraiso” (Paradise!) near the rainforest where I lived with Marco and his family. Marco is occasionally a tourist guide, and most importantly a shaman who knows it all about tropical plants and natural medicine.

Yeeehaaa!

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TRUE COLORS by Laurene

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Although ”Season 6: Quito” hasn’t started yet, I’m already in Ecuador. Why? Because I bought my plane ticket three months ago and couldn’t get a refund. I thought about traveling to Bolivia for a month until JSZ resumes traveling, but didn’t have enough money for such a trip. So I considered volunteering in Ecuador instead, and I’m so glad I did!

During a short visit to a friend in Chicago I found Wlady on couchsurfing, an Ecuadorian who organizes volunteering projects for low-budget tourists just like me. I didn’t really know what I was getting into but decided to give it a go for one month.

It’s been two weeks already in the region called ”El Oriente” and I’ve had the most amazing experience ever!

The guacamayo del Zoo criadero Fatima.

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Amazing Coincidence by Rob

Last seen in January

We got an email this afternoon from a traveler named Christopher, who found our sticker while walking through one of the most unlikely areas of suburban Kanagawa. I placed the sticker during one of my trademark Kanagawa Constitutionals, at a particularly low point in my experience in Japan. I was horribly unhappy that day, and walked for about an hour to an unimportant overpass in an unknown and unloved part of Kawasaki City, where I placed the sticker to commemorate that particularly bad time.

Eight months later, Chris found my sticker.

More amazing still, as I sat in Jen’s office in Sultanahmet today, his email arrived in my inbox. I was telling Jen the story when I followed a link to his website to find his most recent entry about visiting Calgary, Alberta (Jen’s hometown).

Even more amazing than that: one of the pictures in the frontpage photo array is an image of Jen’s office building.

Yeah. Seriously.

So to Chris– thanks for tracking us down, and whether you wanted to or not, you’ve shared a very personal moment in my story.

The Under-loved Overpass

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