Braden
Braden Fox Joined: January 9th 2006
Logged in: July 6th 2008
Logged in: July 6th 2008
Travel Blog Posts
Sunset at Montañita
The Pacific coast... What can I say? It´s gorgeous, just like the rest of this country. Our (Myself, Huns + Mike) over-night bus ride from Quito to the coast was quite an experience. After setting off in a rainstorm, we crawled at 30km/hr through dense fog down 3000m of tiny roads... Occasionally passing ditched busses and trucks (some on the side of the road, others lying further down in gorges) and bunches of little white wooden crosses, at which time Mike declares it´s time to close the curtain on his window. No sleep and 10 hours later we arrive in a coastal town where we switched busses to get to Montañita. A friendly guy named Jose (who I later realized worked at the surf shop in Montañita) led us to the bus we had to take, ... read more
La Basilica
The first week has been amazing... It´s a thousand times more beautiful than I imagined it would be. I´m in the capital now (Quito), which lies in a valley with 5000m high mountains and volcanoes surrounding it. The city is filled with amazing parks, churches and plazas. It´s so easy to just spend the days wandering this place. The weather is a perpetually spring like climate, always 20c and sunny with some rain. The food is great, and everything is, relatively, very cheap. Fresh fruit from the jungle is amazing and costs only pennies, so for me it´s paradise! Beer is the same price as water here (65 cents for a 1L bottle), and authentic soccer jerseys cost $6. (E-mail me the team and size if you want one!) Most of time so far I´ve ... read more
Wabikimi Provincial Park (Ontario)
Hey everybody! First of all thanks for taking a look, I know it’s been a long time (almost an eternity) since I’ve spoken to some of you. A lot of you I e-mailed about this blog I've been less than consistent about keeping in touch with the last couple of years, so now’s your chance to take a look-see at what I’ve been up to! Well, I’m still in Toronto, but spent my summer up in northern Ontario working for the Rangers program again. To the fellow Rangers reading this, being a supervisor kicks ass. I didn’t realize how much I missed being up there until I got back in June. It was a great summer with a some amazing canoe trips, Keegs and Ben (aka “dirty Konrath”, “the weasel”) were both back too which made ... read more
