My New Best Friends: Buffalo, Claudin, and Kiemper Von Shnickenlopf
November 14th 2005 I made my way to Latacunga, a rather gloomy town three hours south of Quito. There was absolutely nothing to do there, so I stayed in and watched Mexican Telenovelas. I woke up early the next morning eager to leave before I became extremely depressed. Latacunga just wasn´t going to be the great start to my epic adventure.
I hopped on a bus and headed for the Black Sheep Inn, an ecolodge that rece
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