I’m Gareth Leonard and this is a story about leaving behind everything comfortable I knew, in search of a dream… I hope you don’t mind if I take a brief pause from the “Travel Deeper Australia” series to bring you the first ever T2T Trailer. This bad boy is long
Take a three minute journey of highlights from my four-month trip to Bolivia, where the mission was to volunteer with literacy NGO, BiblioWorks, in Sucre, Bolivia. I helped develop learning initiatives at one of their eight libraries in the small town of Morado Q’asa outside the city and worked with the BiblioWorks
The above video highlights all the hard work and dedication that the BiblioWorks Organization put into the first ever Literacy Fair in Sucre, Bolivia this past spring. La Feria de La Lectura was held in Plazuela San Francisco on April 14, 2012, and it went off without a hitch! This
Highlights from four months of living and volunteering in Bolivia with BiblioWorks.org. Follow all of my Bolivian Adventures here: Volunteering in Bolivia Video clips were from La Paz, Morado Q’asa (BiblioWorks Library), The Death Road, Salar de Uyuni, Cochabamba, Lake Titicaca and my adopted hometown of Sucre, Bolivia. GarethMy name
If you know me and anything about this site, then you know a 4-day tour would drive me absolutely insane if I didn’t mix things up a bit along the way. Luckily for me and my partner in crime Kiersten, the other 9 people in our Salar de Uyuni tour
This was the culmination of my four months volunteering in Bolivia with BiblioWorks.org. We planned and organized the first ever literature fair in Sucre, Bolivia and were able to host hundreds of students and parents in the name of literacy on one beautiful day in April! Read all about my
I have decided to make a change this summer and focus my attention on something that has been lacking from this site. Today I pledge to you that Tourist2Townie.com will be focusing almost entirely on video over the next few months as I attempt to bring you into my world
Sustainable social initiatives change lives forever and the visionary people who create these incredible projects that grow and impact the fortune of an existing community are who inspire me the most. There isn’t a more perfect example of this than what the Proyecto Horizonte organization is developing in the small
A beautiful 4-day tour through Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia goes awry as The Blonde Abroad and I set out to shoot a music video to Die Antwood’s “I Fink U Freeky” instead of following the normal tourist protocol. The scenery was almost as epic as the dance moves, enjoy responsibly.
Salar de Uyuni is home to the world’s largest salt flats and makes for the most amazing photo shoot backdrop. If you search around the web you can find some pretty creative shots from Salar de Uyuni, so we decided to explore the space and snap some fun pix of