A slight tangent

Although we created this blog to share our cruise experience, we did run across this article today in the Journal News that we want to share with you.

The article documents two families that have set up charities to provide help for the people of Ecuador: The Road Less Traveled and Project Ecuador.

We spent two days touring in Ecuador as well as seven days on the Xpedition. We found the people of Ecuador to be warm, open and hospitable. We traveled out of Quito into the Andes and met some of the local people in Mindo. Here is where we had lunch:


What you don't see is the roads are not paved and there are chickens crossing almost everywhere (we don't know why).

We are not recommending either one of these groups but we do like the idea of contributing to an organization that channels our money directly to the people we want to help. We're sure there are many other deserving and legitimate opportunities to help the people of Ecuador and the billions of other people around the world that need help. Right now, these have immediate personal meaning for us.