Monthly Archives: May 2016

  Once again we’ve landed in the middle of a national festival we don’t understand.  This particular holiday celebrates the defeat of the Spanish in a battle on the volcano, Pinchancha, in 1822. We assumed, wrongly, that the holiday would … Continue reading →

    It’s been just over a week since we arrived and we are still very much in the process of figuring it out.  Figuring it out in a foreign county consist of three essentials: sleeping, eating and getting out.  … Continue reading →

  This post is for those of you who say you envy us.  Sit down on your comfortable American style easy chair, pull your grandchild onto your lap and hear the truth about travel.  It is not easy The truth is, in these early days … Continue reading →