Last year, when Doug and I decided to travel to South America during my leave from teaching, volunteering was our prime motivation, followed closely by exploring mountains (for Doug) and discovering great food (for me, of course), with some amazing travel thrown in. We also thought that we would focus on Ecuador, since we had […]
Something that I suspect helps to make a blog good- the thing that has people on the edge of their seats waiting to read a new post- aside from the highly entertaining script, is that the stories are posted fairly regularly and in a fairly organized manner. I mean, if you are following someone’s blog, […]
Waiting for the Choloatada Early this morning, even earlier than this usually happens, I was awakened to the sounds of a loudspeaker announcing something in rapido Espanol. Often, trucks will drive through a neighbourhood announcing “platinos, papayas, paltas, narrrrrranjas” over and over and over, full blast, at what seems to me to be an ungodly […]