South America
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Galápagos Series: The Biggest Travel Health Risks Aren’t the Ones I Expected (3/4)
I keep thinking that this trip was months away but it’s creeped up so fast that I didn’t realize it’s next month… When we first started planning for the Galápagos, I thought I would be mostly looking at major travel health risks like exotic diseases and vaccines. Like doesn’t that make sense? Remote islands and
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Galápagos Series: Why Vaccines for the Galapagos Islands Are Less Obvious Than You Think (2/4)
I’ve planned several trips before but the Galápagos Islands are definitely forcing me to rethink the way I usually plan when it comes to vaccines and medications. Going into this, I had assumed that it would be like when I went to Vietnam and got my usual vaccine triad for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and
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Galápagos Series: Preparing for the Galápagos Islands (Part 1/4)
The Galápagos Islands are a place I’ve always wanted to visit at least once in my lifetime. And unfortunately I still am not going. Yet. But you know who is? My partner, Will, with his absurd amounts of vacation days (I promise I’m not jealous.) Even though I can’t go myself, I do get to
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What Vaccines I Plan to Get for Thailand
With a vacation to Thailand on the horizon, it’s hard to contain my excitement for surely what is going to be a memorable trip. From island hopping, bumming around on beautiful beaches, chasing temples, and sampling street food, what’s not to like? Thailand is the perfect vacation for adventure or relaxing, or both! Now while