Thirty years. Three continents.
One direction.
Cris was volunteering at a women's rights organization in Ecuador. Dave was a few miles away at an invasion-land elementary school. They met somewhere in between — with hearts already pointed in the same direction.
They came home, married, and raised two kids (the Wee-Staches) on stories of Andean sunrises. When the Wee-Staches left, what filled the empty nest was a map, a stack of research, and the realization that they'd been leaving travel commissions on someone else's table for decades.
The agency came out of that — invite-only, built around the people they already trust enough to travel with.
The commissions don't sit in an account. They go back out: into a bilingual library and food assistance for a Pueblo Joven school in Lima, into school supplies, into the concrete foundation of a second school nearby. The scholarship program — funding young people to do what Ecuador did for them — is where they're headed next.
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