Paid to Play Episode 19: the one where the author visits an orphanage in Guatemala just before Christmas and donates food and supplies on behalf of Gap Adventures. One morning, I woke to find an e-mail in my in-box that said the company I am working for, Gap Adventures, wants to donate $500 dollars of supplies and gifts to Casa Guatemala, an orphanage a few kilometers away from the small river town of Rio Dulce. I was informed that I was the tour leader that wou...

Paid to Play Episode 7: the one about the cool trip down the Rio Dulce river to Livingston and Guatemala's little known Caribbean coast. Guatemala isn't well known for it's Caribbean coast. The city of Livingston is at best a rather lame destination. However, the trip to get there down the Rio Dulce, or sweet river, is one of my favorite day trips in this tour for the scenery and seeing the way the locals live. It's all about the journey, not the destination. An...