I woke this morning around nine o'clock. I had another one of those great breakfast this morning. Lots of fruit covered with yogurt and granola. I found out that they serve, by default to Americans, a weaker, American style coffee. Well, I'll have none of that! I ordered instead standard ecuadorian coffee, best coffee I've had in a great while. I started out trying to remedy the damn credit card thing, which after speaking with Kelly, Jason, numerous emails an...

Since I received some peace of mind money, I slept very well last night. I had more energy this morning. I also discovered that I had grown much more tolerant of the altitude (thank goodness) With all this energy and new-found lucidity, I felt a nice city tour was in order. I decided to visit the monument that's been built to honor the zero parallel. The weather's been marvelous; sun coming out, then clouds obscuring it, a ballet that's been played all day lo...

I thought I was a seasoned traveler. At least eight years ago maybe. I found upon my arrival that the bucket's a little rusty! I had a great flight into Ecuador, I sat next to an ecuadorian lady and her ten year old grandson. It turns out that she lives on Catalina Island and teaches Spanish to rich kids on the island. She had traveled to Ohio to pick up her really cool ten year old grandson. Obviously, her daughter had been married to a Gringo, you could tel...