Tag: Ecuador

Cuenca is a College Town March 23, 2019 Cuenca Ecuador has been in the back of my mind for about seven years. Back then I had a pretty healthy habit of watching House Hunters International and day dreaming about living abroad. For some reason I vividly remember an episode about Cuenca Ecuador and it stuck […]

The Galapagos are kind of like Pistachios March 21, 2019 (I found my first beach of the trip in Galapagos.  It never really feels like a real trip until you find the beach.) My boatmate Lou described the Galapagos like this: They’re kind of like pistachios. It takes a lot of work to get the […]

The Great Galapagos Experiment March 20, 2019 Hola y’all! It’s been a little over a week since my last post. Once I got to Galapagos I shut the computer down and just took it easy. Been back on the mainland for a few days now and putting my thoughts together on the islands has taken […]

Cerca Otavalo Saturday March 9, 2019 Tonight is my last night in Otavalo and I couldn’t have had a better day to end the visit. Otavalo is known for it’s enormous Saturday market. Originally the way the local indigenous communities came together to swap their goods, it turned into ‘a thing’ and then ‘the thing’ to do […]

Charming Cotacachi March 7, 2019 I’ve been in Otavalo five days now and feel settled. To be honest, I’m not looking forward to packing my bag back up in a few days but I’ll enjoy the rest of my time here while I can. I found a Spanish school – well two actually. I took […]

On to Otavalo March 3, 2019 Parque Simon Bolivar Otavalo, Ecuador It is Carnaval in South America right now. The official day is March 5, but the festivities get started early. While it sounded like it could be fun to watch, it also sounded like it could be a bit of a mess, so I […]

Saturday with Sandy March 2, 2019   Today was my first full day at El Refugio de Intag Cloud Forest and was looking forward to a slower pace and nature immersion. El Refugio de Intag Cloud Forest is a naturalists answer to the Four Seasons. I met Peter Joost, the owner, at 7am for coffee […]

TeleferiQo and the Day of the Angels February 27, 2019 As Elisa would agree, one of the joys of travel is finding funiculars. The fancy version of funiculars is cable cars, and Quito’s is named the TeleferiQo. After an early morning adventure depositing cash into a bank account for the Galapagos tour (sometimes you just […]

Old Town Quito February 26, 2019 The hostal offered a free walking tour courtesy of CarpeDM travel (located inside the hostal) and I signed up. The owner of CarpeDM, Paul (I think), started out the tour with the most enlightened introduction to Ecuador imaginable. Paul was inspired by poetry to move to Ecuador and start […]