Where the Dollar Still Gets You Somewhere
June 20th 2008 Although I had read about this in advance, somehow the use of the US dollar as the currency in Ecuador has been vaguely disconcerting. Have I truly left the US? Am I in some strange transition zone between the north and south? Not really here nor there? Thus begins my South American journey.
I arrived in Quito late at night on Wednesday, amidst a crush of international flights that disgorged a
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