Last Sunday we went with Pete and Pattie (met Pete at Yanapuma, they are from Bloomington, MN) to Alausi. We wanted to take a bus, and did. We got up at 6:00, and made the 7:00 bus. What we failed to ask was, as it turns out, the seminal question: “when does it arrive in […]
Ecuador
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, […]
The Big Picture
We aren’t exactly starting from scratch here. We’ve been working on our plan for some time. Here are the elements we see lining up: We have been invited by the US Peace Corps to serve in The Republic of South Africa for 27 months starting in January of 2016. We do need to be medically […]