Highlights of the 2006 & 2008 Trips
(click on the Trips link at the left for entire trip details)

Highlights of the 2006 trip include:

• Meeting with Zapatistas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico (pictured here)
• Homestays in Oaxaca
• Meeting and staying with Sister Peggy O’Neil in Suchitoto El Salvador
• Shadowing Peace Corp volunteers for two days in Morazán El Salvador
• Traveling into the former zones of conflict during the Contra War in the 1980s in northern Nicaragua.

Highlights of the 2008 trip include:

• Homestays in Amatlan and Oaxaca Mexico
• Studying the 2006 protests in Oaxaca
• Hiking and spending the night at the Benito Juarez ejidal community in Oaxaca
• Meeting with the Fathers Dean Brackley, Jon Sobrino, Rogelio ponseele and Sister Peggy O'Neill in El Salvador to discuss issues relating to poverty and personal vocation
• Shadowing Peace Corp volunteers in Morazan, El Salvador
• Hiking with former guerrillas on the Guazap volcano in El Salvador
• Cave tubing in Belize
• Visiting the Mayan site Tikal in Guatemala
• Hiking the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala to see the lava flow