Company Bio

Lori Azevedo M.D.
International Travel Medical Clinic
Nicaragua, Central America

My job has taken me many places. In 1998 I took a position with International Travel Medical Clinic in Nicaragua, Central America. It was difficult to leave my daughter, Rachel in Bend Oregon. Together Rachel and I had loved the outdoors. We had spent many weekends hiking the Cascades. I thought I would never again get to explore God's country as I had in the pacific-northwest.

In Nicaragua the climate is very different than Oregon. The volcanoes are covered in rock and ash not the fur and pine trees I have become accustomed to. My position as a doctor in this area allowed me to travel throughout the villages. While meeting with a family one day they told me there son was injured up on the outcropping of the cliff edge of a volcano. When I asked him how his injury occurred he explained to me that he and a group of friends were sliding the volcano.

Sliding the volcano! I could hardly wait to tell Rachel about it. Snow-shoe yes, skiing yes but to slide or sled down the side of a volcano...could they be on to something?

The idea must have stuck in Rachel's head because it was just one year later she called. They're heading up the summit. Come home, she said!