Hi Guys, We have now settled into our new surroundings in Ecuador/Otavalo. We are now living with our host family who are lovely. (The same family that Zoe and Greg stayed with when they were here - what a coincidence.) Lindsey and I have now started our construction project. First day It rained and our builder had to go to a community meeting for two days. Instead we had to go into one of the schools and help the other volunteer teachers. It was good to s...

¡Hola amigos!We have now arrived in Ecuador! We came into Quito (the capital city) on Sunday night at 12pm! Scary to be faced with a new country and language late at night in a strange city. Luckily we had a pick up arranged. We were completely oblivious to the police riots in Quito earlier in the week - the government put a freeze on the police salaries so they rebelled with street riots and explosive,s and the army had to step in. We have been told by other tr...

Hi Guys Hope you are well. We have now left Las Vegas, it was eating a hole in our funds! We are now at the grotty Venice Beach hostel, Venice Beach, next to the contrasting beauty of Santa Monica. Not quite sure what we were expecting but the hostel is very dirty! The room smells of pee and yet it is more expensive than the MGM Grand in Vegas! Also, at night the homeless people congregate right across the road opposite the hostel. But we have a roof over ou...

Hi Everyone. We have had our last night camping in the USA now, sadly. We had to put our tent down in the rain at 04:30 in the morning. We drove out of LA towards Las Vegas and a car in front of us, about a hundred yards away, suddenly veered off to the left hitting the central reservation and flipped onto it's roof, skidding back across three lanes. OMG........ Luckily the car was not hit and the mother with her two children were OK. They were so lucky and so ...

Hi guys We have been camping for a week now since San Francisco. We stayed at Half Moon Bay, which was a really nice campsite right on the beach. We had Coronas and BBQ sausages on the beach whilst watching a beautiful sunset. People are very friendly on the camp sites. One couple who were staying in a massive motor home next to us gave us beer, I think they felt sorry for us in our little tent. We like it though. We did our 10k run in Santa Cruz, but it was...