Day: 354 We set off to wander early this morning, taking the shortcut from the hostel to the town of Otavalo, a supposed 3.8 kilometers, but since we missed the proper road (a muddy slope) we ended up taking the long way around (more like 5 kilometers). I was alright with the long walk & [...]
Day: 353 Getting up early in Quito, Felicia and I packed our bags, ate breakfast and caught a taxi to what we expected to be a insane South American bus station. Fortunately it wasn´t (other than two guys from competeing bus companies fighting for our business) and within a few minutes we piled ourselves and [...]
Day: 352 Yesterday was our last day in Spanish school and I now know how to ask the taxi driver to use the meter (“Tiene taximetro?”) and how to do a few steps of salsa (which an hour of lessons was included with for free with our 20 hours of Spanish class). Other than that [...]
Day: 351 So, throughout this entire adventure of getting my visa paper work together for my Bolivian Visa I came across an interesting list on Bolivia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. The list (list III) is as follows: AFGANISTÁN ANGOLA BHUTAN CAMBOYA CHAD ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA (incluye PUERTO RICO) (That’s Us!) INDONESIA IRAQ JAMAHIRIYA [...]
Day: 350 As I mentioned yesterday, we only really have a few hours each afternoon for some proper wandering, and then it rains for most of each afternoon making it even more of a pain to get out and get photos. Today we spent most of the afternoon figuring out our visa paperwork (photocopies of [...]
Day: 349 Since Spanish classes (in which Felicia kicks my ass) take most our days and its too dangerous to leave the hostal at night it leaves us a short afternoon to wander town. Today we stumbled across the Theater Bolivar, which was ravaged by fire in 1999, and is now in the slow process [...]
Day: 348 In an expedition to find Middle Earth (which is rumored to be around here), Felicia and I took directions from our Spanish teacher and spent an hour and a half on two separate excessively crowded buses to get there. Much to my dismay the lack of Hobbits was excessively noticeable, no wizards, no [...]
Day: 347 My alarm beeped off at 8 am this morning and I jumped out of bed with the exuberance of a child at an all you can eat ice cream buffet. The sun was streaming in our second story window overlooking the street, and the day looked spectacular. Yet, for some reason Felicia didn’t [...]
Day: 346 Somewhere over Central America I open my eyes, blinded by the bright morning sun. The Singaporean in the window seat next to me has that, ghost white-hands clenched-holding down the vomit look on her face; the look you never really want to see on a fellow passenger at 35,000 feet. I glance at [...]
The Day Before Tomorrow: My life in the last 7 days has become busier than any other point in the past 2 years. I have shot 2 weddings and attended another, been to Big Bear and the beaches, spent hours upon hours at my computer editing and building a new webpage, spent countless evenings showing [...]
