{"id":5531,"date":"2014-03-07T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:21:43","slug":"travel-service-haiti-sak-plen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"Travel and Service: Haiti Sak Plen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bit of a slacker and haven’t produced a good post for a couple of weeks. \u00a0I have a good excuse, though. \u00a0Last week I was in Haiti, doing a service mission for a non-profit organization that I helped establish after the Haiti earthquake in 2010.<\/p>\n

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Two of my best friends from Haiti, Stanley and Pouchon<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t traveled nearly what I’d like to, but I’ve been a fair amount of places… and strangely, one of the places I’ve been to most often is Haiti. \u00a0I have such mixed feelings about the experience, but the net has always been positive. For one, it makes me appreciate so much more all the blessings that we enjoy to live where we live. \u00a0It’s also inspiring to see people who are so destitute, and yet so impenetrably happy.<\/p>\n

Haiti has become a part of me, and I’ve developed a love for the Haitian people moreso than almost any other place I’ve been (the Basque people being the exception – Gora Euskadi!) I think it’s a product of the objective of my trips there, which has never been anything other than service. That said, I’ve done my fair share of playing… two of the funnest waterfall experiences I’ve ever had have taken place in Haiti – cliff jumping at Bassin Bleu, and the crazy voodoo experience at Saut d’Eau.
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