EarthThreads International

Here are some photos from my last Trip to Guatemala in 2017. Featured are friends and family that I met on the way, and some of the mayan textile designs that I love... In this photo, me and a fellow student and office assistant at Utatlan School of Language pose for pictures as her mother and sister who are visiting sit close by having coffee and bread. I had the opportunity to meet and have lunch with family members at a few famous places in Quetzaltenango, and funny enough one of my uncles in Quetzaltenango actually supplied coffee for our school every morning, and had a wonderful cafe just down the street, where I found a copy of Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now in english! Out on the finca, wearing pants with pockets hemmed and designed in Guatemala, I watched as my mom's hermano and a team of men corraled the cattle into the pens and fields where they were raised, and loaded onto trucks by horse and lasso to be transported and sold to butcher shops in the area. The cow ...

Hi there! My name is Camila, and it is very nice to meet you. This is my travel blog and business website. One thing to know about me is that I like to keep things simple and direct, as consistency is a quality trait to maintain in life, a form of discipline in practice, if you will, and if I can manage it-a little depth, are my main focuses.  I am beginning an online, and on-foot, nonprofit platform by the name of EarthThreads International, based in East Downtown Houston, that promotes the equal opportunity and cultural awareness of all people and it is an absolute delight to bring to you quality goods that can be sourced directly back to the representation of indeginous groups, individuals, and even individual crafts-men-&-women, and information about their origin.  My favorite thing about traveling across different lands around the world, along side connecting with the land and learning about its history and geology, in context to its anthropological importance, is mee...