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Well hello all. its been awhile, ryan and i were lazy and would get sick of being in the internet cafes and sweating to death. we discovered the surf shak a bar that has wifi and for only $2 a day we can use it all day. good deal. oh and u can drink beer, well actually u can drink beer anywhere. Things are still going really well. still plugging away at spanish classes 5times a week and both ryan and i bought surfboards (well ryan is still waiting to get his, he got it specially made so it takes a [View Full Entry]

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I know I know Ryan and i havent written in along time but we have been busy plus internet access is a joke on the coast. Well lets see since we last wrote we took a 12 hour bus ride from Quito to Las Tunas which is along the coast. We were there for 3 nights in a cabaña called La Barquita they were really nice the bar was a giant boat. We went whale watching near Puerto Lopez and saw several groups of humpback whales. it was pretty cool, we also went snorkaling. Then we headed to Montañita which is [View Full Entry]

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Okay so i just want to make this clear, the reason that Ryan and I have been on the internet so much lately is cuz we have free WIFI in our room and there is only 4 channels on the tv in english. I know listen to me complaining. Well today was an interesting day we finally made it to the immigration office today side note: yesterday we went to the canadian embassy registered there and got a few names of legitimate real estate agents, then we went to the ecuadorian immigration office and waited for 2 hrs only to find [View Full Entry]

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Hola Well as you may or may not know, Ryan and I made it here safely as well as our luggage. Which we really werent expecting, so that was a pleasant surprise. We are staying at a really nice hostal a bit out of the way of the main plazas but it just forces us to get out and walk. Today we walked around and just tried to get back into the groove. I have a bit of elevation sickness so we had to take it easy. Which is okay because we are both still a bit tired from the 24 [View Full Entry]

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It is amazing how one can take for granted simple luxuries in life. Like for instance when you have an address for a government building you assume that that is where it is. Not so in latin america. We got up early today in order to go to the canadian consulate as well as the ecuadorian department of immigration to register our visa so that we could leave quito and start looking for land. When we got to the what we thought would be the right place all that we could see was a piece of paper that said the canadian [View Full Entry]

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Here are a few pictures of when we were in comox. It was really hard to only pick a couple photos. There is few more on our facebook. thx [View Full Entry]

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