The Other Hemisphere

Ambato and Marco and Elena So, I want to take some time and talk about our hosts in Ambato - Marco and Elena. They were absolutely wond...

Home Feels Foreign Well, we stayed in Ecuador for 2 weeks and we are still alive. Visiting a 3rd world country is very different from t...

The Third Place On Our Trek After our great time in Ambato for close to a whole week, we hopped on a bus for Cuenca which was 7 horas (...

Note: Remote places do not have great Wi-fi **Note - several of these posts were written while we didn't have internet, so they...

Places Just Outside of Quito   So as we continued to venture around we found there are some very impressive sights to see. On Saturday ...

  Arrived in Quito Well I am glad to say we did arrive. Our flight left from ATL at 6:17pm practically on the dot. Huge thanks to Ca...

Just as an FYI, don't get less than five hours of sleep when you have to work a 10-hour day. I fantasized about taking a nap yesterday b...