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Continue reading →: Off the Beaten Path
This weekend we took quite a road trip. From Quito we went south along the Pan-American highway and then we turned west and drove though the sort of no man’s land of Ecuador. There are still some very rural parts of Ecuador, where roads are not paved and people walk…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Quito, Part 6: ‘Whining’ and dining
Quito has some very good restaurants, at least if you A: prefer Ecuadorean food or B: don’t mind spending a lot of money. We have eaten at some of the fanciest joints in Quito: The food is exceptional, and the prices are not unlike what you’d expect to see in…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Quito, Part 5: Food
Well, I talked about the beer. Now let’s talk about food. Way up in the Andes, some crops grow better than others. But what grows well up here isn’t always the kind of thing an American craves to eat. The traditional food of the sierra is very bland – mostly…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Quito, Part 4: Beer
Several of my buddies have asked me about the beer situation in Ecuador (I love it that this is what my friends consider to be important). If you are into quirky imports and microbrews, the situation is grim. But if you’re willing to go with the flow, so to speak,…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Quito, Part 3: Crime
Many have asked, so here it is: Crime is a problem in Quito, but not unlike anywhere else. Theft and robbery are the two things you have to worry about the most, which is no surprise in a country with such a wide disparity in incomes. Indeed, my cell phone…
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Continue reading →: Our Weekend with Whales
Humpback whales are experiencing a resurgence. By the 1960s, when whaling was outlawed by the International Whaling Commission, there may have been as few as 5,000 in the world. Now there may be as many as 80,000 – still just more than half of the original population of around125,000. Puerto…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Quito, Part 2: Money is important
Things that are generally expensive in the U.S. are comparatively cheap in Ecuador. Things that are generally cheap in the U.S. are comparatively expensive in Ecuador. A men’s haircut in Quito sets me back $3. A beer — either Pilsener or Club, the two national brands — is around 60…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Quito
Since I moved here in June, we have had a pretty interesting time. So far, we have hiked/climbed to the top of a volcano; we have hiked down (twice) to the bottom of the crater of another volcano (it’s an “extinct” volcano, so no danger); we have swum in thermal…
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Continue reading →: A post about Birds
You probably know that Ecuador is a biodiversity hotspot, so you will see a number of blog posts about it over time. For now, lets talk about my favorite animal: birds. Ecuador, a country the size of Nevada, is home to 18% of the bird species in the world —…
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Continue reading →: “Tungurahua ejects incandescent stones”, read the headline
To follow up on my volcano post, Tunguragua is having an eruption, slow and steady, but enough to douse over 10,000 hectare of farmers fields in several centimetres of ash. This is just one of the many articles that has been appearing over the past few weeks about this latest…
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