South America
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Galápagos Series: Can I Go with a Medical Condition? (4/4)
We’ve made it to the end of the series! What I finally want to address is exactly as the title says – Can I travel to the Galápagos Islands if I have a medical condition? Medical conditions like heart problems, migraines, cancer, and everything in between can be daunting to travel with. I have spoken…
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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 (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…