Getting Ready For The Descent

Tales of Pilsners, Pinchos, And Of Course, Pictures!!

---

February 4th 2006
So here I am in a webcafe in Quito fighting off a hangover of Hemingwayesque porportions, and trying to figure out where to start............ 5 minutes later and the lightbulb is still very much off, so I guess I´ll just be abrupt. Just over two weeks ago I departed from Toronto at two in the afternoon, by midnight I was in a whole new world. Despite my attempts to study Spanish at home, my a ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

---

The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more