Inspirietry / Recuperiety
One of the benefits of traveling is that one learns geography and in planning our South America jaunt, Scott was thrilled to realize how closely Aruba and Ecuador are positioned on the globe. While Scott is always on the lookout for trekking opportunities, his true love is the sport of windsurfing and a very dry four years has left his beloved local windsurfing spot looking like...
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Adventuriety
I feel like a real blogger now. I am in the middle of nowhere…literally. I am sitting in the main area of our “lodge” using the wifi, borrowing a power outlet, drinking a local beer. I have taken many planes and a high speed drug boat (I am fairly certain) to get here. Scott and I have been watching La Reina del Sur, a...
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Adventuriety
Today we woke up early and shared Special-K and Granola with a few bananas. After a double-check of the backpack, Grant, Ashley and I headed out of our apartment and hailed a taxi. In Quito there are a wide variety of “taxis” so you have to use a little caution to get the ones that are licensed. Always grab the ones that...
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Adventuriety / Inspirietry
Our last guided excursion was today and happily today was going to be the shortest amount of time in the car. We left the apartment around 8:00 am and headed north out of town. Our first stop was at Mitad del Mundo. We have been some places this year that are really interesting that I would not have ever thought I would see....
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Adventuriety
Today had nothing on our schedule and so we slept in a bit. We did however have plenty of work to catch up on. I thought we could break the day up by having lunch in the historic district. We hired a cab which took us there after a 15 minute ride that cost only $3.80. Two nice traveler points about Ecuador are that most...
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Adventuriety
Excursion number two out of three began at 7:00 am this morning. Our adventure consisted of a rain-forest hike, zip lining, a nice lunch and some kind of weird tubing-raft hybrid down a river and hanging with some butterflies. We drove north out of Quito toward the town of Mindo. After a couple hours in the car we stopped for our first activity...
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Adventuriety / Domesticiety
There were three main reasons for visiting Quito on our South American trip. First, Daisy had a desire to see the Galapagos Islands which are Ecuadorian territory and accessible through the Quito airport. Second, my father thought it wouldn’t be a bad place to spend some time. He enjoyed Quito in the 80’s and used the surrounding mountains and volcanoes like Cotopaxi to train...
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Inspirietry
Daisy and I have decided to limit the nights we stay in hotels. We have elected to setup shop in local apartments where we can spread out. The kids can sit around the table like at home and complete school work. I can cook in the kitchen and Daisy can do whatever she does. She is pretty good at it I think. As...
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Adventuriety
By the time we arrived in Aguas Calientes we had been learning and soaking up Andean history and culture for eleven days and we had seen a lot of Inca ruins, five of the ten “Top 10 Inca Ruins to See (that aren’t Machu Picchu)” according to National Geographic to be exact (we didn’t plan that), and a few others not included on the list....
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Adventuriety
It started raining in the middle of the night and we woke early to soggy everything. At least we could enjoy the hot springs again for a few hours before heading out. Ashley, knowing this, was up before the sun and ready to swim. She impatiently waited for 7:00. Scott got a text, we must be in range of a signal…Get on the Bus, one...
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