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TRAVEL | VOLUNTEERING | CARIBBEAN
How We Got a Six-Month Volunteer Gig at a Botanical Garden in the Caribbean
It wasn’t as complicated as you might think.
It has become obvious to me that some people hear of other people doing these sorts of things, but they don’t think that they can. In fact, before my partner and I set out on our full-time travel journey in 2017, we were also told that we would never find any sort of volunteer opportunity while out in the world. Well, more specifically, this individual told us that we would never get a housesitting job. In fact, he told us that it was impossible.
However, after joining a housesitting website while we were downsizing and getting rid of all of our possessions, I was amazed that less than one month later, a lady contacted us to see if we wanted to housesit for her in Costa Rica later that year. Thus began our nomadic journey.
Defying impossibility, we house-sat in four different locations around Central America before we made our way to the Caribbean for a family holiday. By then, we had lived in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala.
Joining a family celebration
It was February of 2019, and it was my mom’s 70th birthday. We had arranged to meet my…
