Paula Newton is a freelance writer and management consultant. The editor of V!VA Travel Guide to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands, she has an insatiable thirst for off-the-beaten-track travel. Paula has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. Those volunteering in Ecuad[...]
Posts Tagged ‘travelling’
Good Travel Karma
The other day I was on the minibus to El Alto for work and the guy next to me asked me how much the fare was and also to let him when we reached Plaza San Francisco. It felt strange at first that a man who I presumed initially to be Bolivian would ask me [...][...]
August 14th, 2009 - 2:29 am § in Peru
For the Best Fruit, You Gotta Go Out on a Limb
One of the strangest (and sometimes dangerous) things that happens to me when I travel is that, as soon as I overcome the fear of releasing the comforts of home and board the plane, I magically lose all inhibitions. On my first volunteer trip, to East Africa in 2007, I was newly engaged to be [[...]
