Our New Life In Quito, Ecuador Journal entry - January 12, 2010 After a rental car drive to Portland, OR (in a brand new Hyundai Santa Fe “Mom, can we get one of these”, asked Marleigh), a night’s stay at the Ramada Inn (I guess you could call it a “night’s stay”….if getting up at 3:15 am counts), two plane flights later (first to the ahmmm…the G.W. Bush International airport in Houston, TX….then a 4-hour wait….dum-de-dum-de-dum….then finally we take a close to 5-hr flight to Quito, Ecuador. We landed at about 10:30 pm EST, went through the customs, grabbed our 200 lbs of gear and as we came out to the front area, we looked for our pick-up in and amongst the throngs of people carrying signs and yelling “taxi”, “taxi”, “taxi”. We found Marianna and
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