Comments on: What Is Wrong With People?

By: Wow, I didn’t mean to make anyone upset:( | The World By Road - Around the World Travel Expedition

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:57:06 +0000

[...] This fine anonymous reader of the blog is from Milton, Queensland in Australia based on the IP address. My question to him/her and anyone who feels the same way is, "What did we ever do to you?" We are a couple of guys that believe just throwing money at poor, less fortunate people does not solve problems. As we state in our mission statement and all the info on the site explaining what we are doing- Only 20% of Americans hold valid passports and an even smaller amount of them actually using them in a given year (some years less than 5% of Americans leave the country). The statistics are very similar in most developed countries. Although the statistics may be a little better in other countries, not many people who donate money to the Red Cross or the countless other organizations out there trying to help people have even been to the countries where the money is going. From what we have seen, a majority of this money is misused or never even makes it to the people it was meant to help. [...]

By: Donald Lee

Donald Lee — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:29:06 +0000

I am an ex pat, long term residnt of Central America, two “Dangerous” countries, El Salvador and Guatemala and have driven over 850,000 klicks (km.), not including the drive from USA to Guatemala in 1986. (Datsun 210B). I have been in Africa and also have traveled to the former Soviet Union(1983) with Africans, so know a bit of your present situation and admire your guts. Latin america, in general, is a cakewalk compared to where you are now. Best of luck to you. I would like to join the site and if any of your members do come to El Salvador we have a wonderful campsite within a protected wildneress area (see my url - bloq). I acted as a guide/interpreter/do all/volunteer paramedic whatever for years. Have since sold my vehicle, take public transport around the city, have transport for volunteer asignments. Well, keep on truckin’
from the late 1950s through the late 1970s I either drove or hitchiked 200,000 miles at least in USA, Canada and Europe. some of us can never stay still.
http://www.traveloblog.com/trip/tropicalguide/south-america-el-salvador-cinquera-in-rural-el-salvador.html