Adventure Updates
This city is a gem. What a lovely place to chill out and explore.
We arrived in the afternoon after an eight hour bumpy adventure bus ride. That was an interesting ride. The bus double-backed at one...
We had a plan. We were going to do some adventure sports, then stay at a farm for a couple weeks and learn all about Ecuadorian cuisine. That was the plan. That was not what happened.
We (Graham mostly)...
The Quilatoa Crater Loop is a three day, 35km hike up through farming villages and valleys to the Quilatoa volcano crater, which the goal of the hike, on the final day. Now, you can take a bus there, but...
Our second stint in Quito was planned with the Diez de Agosto celebrations, and Huecafest, Ecuador’s Taste of London equivalent. Of course, things never quite turn out the way you think they do....
Quite literally one volcano over from Quito, to the southeast, lies an expansive plateau valley nestled between similar giants. What we call volcano valley, and what the world calls Cotopaxi National Park,...
Mindo, Mindo, Mindo!!!
Any apprehensions we had about finding our bus were gone in an instant. Its clear that bus stations in Ecuador have dealt with too many clueless gringo’s so everything is...
This was a total whirlwind day trip out of Quito. So many things!
Otavalo is a city two hours north of Quito. It is most famous for the indigenous market that goes on in the centre of the city every...
Welcome to an entire new type of adventure! The South American kind! The Ecuadorian kind! Quito style!
One 30 hour sleep in the airport till the security guard wakes you up travel day later, we arrived...
As we write this, we are in our second Porto hostel. Our first got filled up by some Italian catholic youth in town to travel to Lisbon for World Youth Day in their quest to see the Pope. Our writing sessions...
Well, we just created a European tier list of stuff. You will see that after all the Europe blogs come out. A week or two probably.
It’s 45 minutes until we head for the Porto Airport. We will...