Health Update: Ellen continues to make progress, although we are still traveling to Salinas every other day. Chances are we’ll be here another 1-2 weeks. I’m not going to lie, we are getting a little antsy, even though we are in a lovely place. There is a lot of Ecuador to still see, and we […]
Travelling
Burst!
This post may be a bit brief in deference to Ellen’s privacy. Toward the end of last week, Ellen suffered from some pain in her gut. By Saturday sunset we headed to the emergency room at the hospital in Manglaralto, about 15 minutes south of where we are staying. If you are thinking it is […]
A Room With Kind of a View
Mary asked for more details on living arrangements. I didn’t really take many photos of the first two situations. But here is a quick briefing: You got to see the Mejia house in the Christmas post. Richard’s apartment was quite roomy, had 2.5 baths, and a nice kitchen (albeit without an oven). By far […]
Loja
Last Friday we left Cuenca for a weekend in Loja, about 3 1/2 hours south by van. From Wikipedia: The city of Loja was founded by Field Marshal Alonso de Mercadillo in 1548, and it is named for his hometown of Loja in Spain. Originally located near La Toma in the Catamayo canyon since 1546, […]
Cuenca – On Tour
Sunday morning we headed out to check out the city. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the air is clear. Turns out, most of the businesses (including restaurants) are closed on Sundays. We walked past a plaza with vendors selling primarily Christmas stuff – lights, manger figures, etc. This, by-the-way, is the route that […]
Postcard From A Traveler
” More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force to live in the present.” Over my cold! Started Spanish class today. It was fun! My French accent gets in the way some, but overall I wasn’t as bad as I thought I’d be. My main concern is actually speaking. My understanding is […]
Up
I’m happy to say that Ellen felt much better today. We packed up, had breakfast, and headed over to the van company across the street. We decided to go with the van, even though it was $3.50 more per person. It was just across the street. On the van, an Ecuadorean told us that the […]
Made It!
Make no mistake! Any flight that leaves at 10:45 pm is a red-eye flight. We can vouch for it. We caravanned from Sunshower Farm to SFO on Tuesday morning with a stop a Philz coffee on the way. Philz is a hot new thing in coffee, where they have about 20 different flavors that they […]
Virus
It’s been a bit since the last post. I developed a viral infection about a week ago. Ellen got it a few days later. Not fun, and we’re presumably on the mend, but worry about carrying it with us on the flight. Blakey flew down last Friday. We hung a bit in Lalaland. Saturday we […]
Ellen & Steve’s Small (but not Tiny) House
Having had the opportunity to experience Blakey’s tiny house, I am loathe to call where we are living a tiny house. In fact, here are some interesting tiny house facts: Tiny houses may not have more than 400 square feet excluding lofts The day I posted the Blakey’s Tiny House blog, I got 5 times […]