by Allan J. Wind

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Here’s the set-up:

Alonzo shares a slice of his life with us, informative and instructive moments that will recall simpler times. A reminder that service to others is not always what we expect, but a chance to find meaning and purpose in life.
Over the past three and a half years, it’s been hard to find much inspiration and motivation in public life. The slow, yet systematic building of walls – both real and imagined, has caused us to become isolated from the other side of these walls.This long feared, yet poorly anticipated global pandemic has placed us into a contaminated and chaotic Coronaverse where international discourse and exchanges are frozen and uncertain. We find ourselves in a very real and tangible state of social isolation.

I am offering this book to recall simpler times. I want to remind us how national service in the Peace Corps and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) abroad offered a chance to help. When service abroad offered a chance to find meaning and purpose.

Andean Adventures is for the younger generations who have seen their opportunities and futures seized from them. It is also for those with loved ones derailed by the disruption and the deformed public discourse.

Are you considering life options overseas once we get through to the other side of this Coronaverse? Are you interested in finding opportunities for greater meaning and purpose? Are you interested in a story of failure, redemption, challenges, faith, and perseverance?

Independent of which of the above peaks your interest, I have stories to share that will hopefully shed some light on unexpected life lessons. My life took a direction I had never anticipated from the start, and I served overseas thinking that I would then return to a normal life. That proved not to be the case.

I was shot at, arrested, and threatened with expulsion. I also encountered the most unexpected surprises along the way. There are lessons and experiences that are informative and instructive, representing an important slice of my life story and that of many wonderful people.

The Andean Adventures here are the first which really determined my life, and although I would go on to others, these were formative and decisive.
Buy your copy now and allow my life experiences to shed some light on yours. SPANISH EDITION available at https://tinyurl.com/AventurasAnd
A memoir of public health, community development service and spiritual discovery overseas in Peace Corps and nongovernmental organizations and USAID, sharing with self-deprecating humor experiences across the Andes and Latin America. Full of anecdotes and some remarkable stories from Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.

A lot of reflecting on the role and structure of foreign assistance, on religion, and on other topics many of us spend time questioning and dealing with. For some, a provocative discussion and meditation on searching for meaning and purpose after college. A story of successes, failures, redemption, challenges, faith and perseverance.

Doctor Alonzo writes with humor and wisdom, and shares his amazing journey, from his Peace Corps days through the beginning of his career with the US Agency for International Development. Along the way, he shares insights about life, love, religion, politics, and shares both his successes, failures, disappointments and lessons learned.