Month: July 2013

Every Child is Equal

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Life Out of the Box

LOOTB Gives to Kids in Central America. Every Child is Equal.

In our eyes, every child is equal. That’s the mentality we’ve had from day one since we left California to embark on this journey of starting Life Out of the Box in Central America. We believe that every single child deserves the chance to have an education, get creative, and go after their dreams. We want to give kids all over the world, no matter where they were born, the tools to do just those things.

We started Life Out of the Box in beautiful Nicaragua where the people, the culture, the land and, of course, the kids all changed us both to the core. We came to the country to find out how we can give back to the people but what happened was that Nicaragua gave back to us in the most amazing way we could have ever imagined. As you watched in our latest video on YouTube, we…

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Enter Sulawesi: Heaven and Hell on Bunaken Island

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ESCapology

Bunaken-5914After surfing in Bali, I decided it was time to leave and go exploring some more remote regions again. In the end, venturing off the beaten path is where my heart is. I remembered that I always wanted to see Sulawesi, a huge island situated right between the Malucas and Borneo. I had heard of remote islands, unspoiled and rugged regions without a lot of tourists, great diving at untouched reefs and difficult transportation. Exactly the adventure I needed after three weeks spent in a rather blissful manner. I had booked the flight to Manado, Sulawesi’s Northern capital and gateway to my final destination Bunaken Island, just a few days before. And that flight was already an odyssey itself with a delay of six hours, arriving at 5 am instead of 10:30 pm, a change of planes and a whole lot of chaos at the airport. A good start of…

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