Trekity´s focus is providing destination details based on personal preferences. We definitely want to add a volunteer section once we have enough content to support it.

Trust me, you won´t find ¨5 Pubs in…¨type posts on the main website. It´s all hard hitting, factual details.

Cheers,

Adam

And the human interest stories and hard journalism can certainly be found in various travel blogs and sites. Many of my fellow travel blogging colleagues have experiences on the road that inspire such pieces, but none of us tend to have a steady enough stream of those experiences to formulate entire websites around them. I’d say that the majority of the hard-journalism stories we bloggers have that we want to share, we’ll sell as freelance writers to larger publications.

But trust me – it’s out there….one such site that I think you might be inspired by is Uncornered Market – Dan and Audrey travel with a focus on microfinance and volunteering. Their writing is awesome. Check it out!
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/
https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/a-week-in-the-life-of-audrey-dan-uncornered-market/

I apologize that my original post was not clear, there were a lot of thoughts going on in my head that I was trying to communicate in a short comment. Although it was intended for Adam and Darcie, I am glad to have engaged you in this conversaton also, Nora.

One of the missed opportunites I see is in the writing. Adam was mentioning in the blog that they were trying to get a lot of guest posts on other travel sites. From what I can glean from their blog, my guess is that their writing will be of the “Top 5 Pubs In Prague” type writing. Obviously, these are interesting to a lot of people and have their place.

However, also interesteing to a lot of people, but missing from most big travel sites are things like information and booking on volunteer vacations. I hope that will be good addition for your site.

Also missing are human interest stories – i.e “A Day In The Life Of A Guatamailan Child” – and hard jounalism – i.e. “How American Textile Companies Are Exploiting Jamacian’s In the ‘Free-Zone'”.

I’ve also risen to the call more than once and turned my life upside down to provide invaluable disaster relief (organizing top-level aid where aid organizations have failed) – once in Thailand, and once in Australia. And if I found myself in a situation where I had another “calling” of sorts, I’d do it again. So I sleep pretty well at night!

Dealing with poverty as a traveler is a very tricky thing. How do you swoop in as an outsider and truly help people who you see as being sad and having less than you, without insulting them?
I honestly don’t know the answer to this question. It’s not an excuse to NOT do anything (by any stretch!), but I think it’s a reason to be very careful about HOW to do it.

Yes, you are correct. It can be difficult to see so much poverty around the world. You bring up a good point and we’ve been thinking about adding a volunteer section to Trekity.com for those that want to help. You’ve just confirmed our thoughts so thank you for your feedback. It’s much appreciated.

Thanks,

Adam

On one hand, it looks like a lot of fun and adventure to do what you are doing and I would be lying if I didn’t want to do it for myself.

However, I am not seeing much about the locals and their needs. Isn’t there a lot of poverty in the places you are visiting?

I went to Jamaica a few years ago, and after seeing how the masses there lived, how many people were being exploited, and the sadness of so many, my heart was truly changed. I wanted to help them.

Maybe you are missinng an awsome opportunity around you.

Can’t wait to get steak and red wine – thanks SO much for your advice!

(did I mention we like wine?)

BA has amazing food! We stayed in Palermo Soho which has tons of places to eat.

For steak, go to La Cabrera in Palermo for happy hour from 7:00-8:30 every night (EVERYTHING 50% off)
For brick oven pizza/italian, go to Siamo nel Forno in Palermo
For sandwiches, go to a‘Manger in Palermo… Best sandwiches ever!
For healdo Tufic, Freddo, or Volta

Also check out either Casa Mun or Cocina Sunae for a Closed Door Dining experience (very popular in BA). Both places are Asian fusion and Phenomenal!

And we did a sponsored food blog trips with Buenos Aires Food Tours and Cooking with Teresita… Highly recommend checking them out!

Here’s a dining guide for more options!

http://pickupthefork.com/restaurant-guide/

Hope this helps!