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Filed under: Ecuador on November 1st, 2007 | No Comments »

There are no good maps of Ecuador. No matter what the map claims the distance between destinations will be, add 20 km to get the real distance. The road signs are additionally misleading, giving distance varying by 20 km in the space of 5 km or less! This problem resulted in more than a couple days [...]

Filed under: Ecuador, Peru on October 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Our time spent in Quito waiting for Cindy’s pannier to be constructed was pretty uneventful. save for a few tourist activities we got in. We spent a day on the bus going north of Quito to Otavalo, a cute little town in the mountains that has a large craft market. The bus ride was pretty [...]

Filed under: Ecuador, Movies on October 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

The whole time we’ve been in Ecuador, we’ve been seeing political advertisements for an upcoming election, which just occurred on 30 Sept. We weren’t really sure what it was about until we saw this article at CNN.com. It is an election to create a Constitutional Assembly to create a new constitution for Ecuador. Apparently, it [...]

Filed under: Ecuador, General on October 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

OK, the rants first. I can’t remember if I mentioned before here that I’ve been reading the Harry Potter books in Spanish. I whipped through the last half of the third book last weekend so that we could ship it home with the rest of the little trinkets we were sending. Since then I’ve gone [...]

Filed under: Ecuador on September 26th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Everybody we talked to and everything we read before we decided to go to the Galapagos Islands told us the same thing: you will spend an obscene amount of money and it will be worth every penny. It was truly an amazing experience for the both of us. Originally, our plan had been to meet up [...]

Filed under: Ecuador, Movies on September 19th, 2007 | No Comments »

Our first day in Bogotá was a Sunday, where their weekly event known as Ciclovia meant most of the main streets were severly restricted to car traffic and open instead to bikes. We had hoped to participate, but since my pedals were missing after the flight from Panama, we couldn’t. It turned out to be [...]

Filed under: Colombia, Ecuador on September 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments »