Even though the United States didn’t qualify for this year’s World Cup, our team of South America and Central America travel experts here in the U.S. have found plenty of rooting interests in the tournament all the same. When you spend as much time getting to know the people and the places across South America the way we have, you develop some pretty profound ties and you can’t help but pull for the countries you know intimately.
 

When Justin Laycob founded Southern Explorations, he had a distinct ideology in mind for the company he was about to create. Not just for the style of revelatory South America and Central America travel experiences he wanted to provide guests, but also the lifestyle experience he’d be able to create for himself and his team.
 

This past month, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issued a call from the Galapagos to fight back against the plastic polluting the oceans, before it’s too late.