Islas De Galapagoas, Isla Hispañola, 11-10-1990. I spit out a big blob of red colored pleghm, the taste of metalic blood foremost in my mouth while my body is trembling, big spasms of muscle cramps rippling through my shivering body. I am covered with the red earth I am lying on, my pinkish flesh shining through the rivers left on my skin by heavily perspiring pores... I am learning a lesson here and surrounded by a crowd of locals it is humiliating, the cops who have become my friends these last few weeks, dressed in their tight-fitting brown police uniforms daring [View Full Entry]

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Um, hi mom and dad, dont freak out but I need to go by boat from Colombia to Panama : P need to get to costa rica... Hmm...so does anyone know how to go by boat from Colombia to Panama the ¨Cheap way¨, ie no sail boats please?? Any info would help. Pura Vida... [View Full Entry]

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Hello everybody! I am so sorry I haven’t written anything in decades, but I am just extremly busy here. All in all things have been great so far. I am getting along well with the guy I am living with and I am still going to burn in hell. I haven’t been sick at all (just a little back pain from bending down on the farm all the time) and the food is okay (well, self-made hot chocolate is freaking awesome). The kids at school are giving me a pretty hard time, but I am slowly, slowly learning to cope with [View Full Entry]

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We had anticipated Otavalo for a while as it is known in South America to be one of the best hand crafted markets. We were in for a surprise when once again we got lost and mistook the local market for the hand crafted market. The local market was filled with fruits, vegetables, and meat. We are not talking your average butcher shop meats they had pig carcasses hanging, pig heads on plates, and chickens. All the meat was out in the warm heat and giving off a stench and on top of that there were dogs walking around giving everything [View Full Entry]

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Last night I went out to dinner with the Nishimuras and the Descours. We took two cabs to a restaurant our local guide (Edison) had recommended. It was a seafood place called Mare Nostrum. Dinner for the 5 of us, including wine and desserts was 111 dollars. The good thing in Ecuador is that they use the US dollar as their currency, so it's easy to pay for things. I had grilled salmon and it was really yummy. We again had to take 2 cabs back to the hotel, and Diane and Yoshi and I stayed in the hotel bar and [View Full Entry]

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Zumba es la cabecera cantonal de Chinchipe, la tierra de la chonta y la guayusa. El río Mayo Chinchipe atraviesa el cantón de norte a sur. En este lugar se descubrio la cultura MAYO - CHINCHIPE DE HACE 5000 AÑOS [View Full Entry]

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Mindo is a small town about 1 hour north of Quito, and is famous for its cloud forest location. It was a very small and welcoming town, with a population of about 2500 people. Mindo is an excellent place to do birdwatching, aswell as other adventure activities such as hiking, tubing, and rafting. Here are some pictures from ziplining. The cables we were travelling on varied in length, with the shortest being 20m and the longest 400m [View Full Entry]

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Leider klappt es wirklich nicht mit den Bildlis. Das kommt dann spaeter. Was hab ich noch vergessen zu schreiben: vor meiner Jungle-Tour hab ich noch fuer 3 Stunden einen Quad gemietet. Wow, das war toll. 3 Stunden Offroad, Schlamm, Kies, Wasser. Ich war ganz schoen verschmutzt. Richtiger Cross. Und mit einem Quad der Power hat :) Um die Kurven rumgeschlaeudert und so...hihi. Das war mal eine gut Idee. Heute hab ichs geschaft meine Anmeldung zu schicken, hoffe kommt an....und heut Nacht geht es nach einem Badenachmittag im Thermalbad auf nach Peruuuu!!!! [View Full Entry]

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Im back in the hospital today,..trying to find the right moment to get them to sign me off..without putting the date... doing mtas...but anyway, the weekend was for more interesting.. Friday night I went to a school event with some of the volunteers at the navy school. They thought it was going to be a fashion show, After waiting for an hour and a half from the published start hour, the show finally started. The volunteer had undesrtood it was a school election but actually it was a beauty pageant for electing a king and queen of the sea...but really the [View Full Entry]

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Well, yesterday was a bit of a trial. Our flight from Juliaca to Quito (via Arequipa) was supposed to be at 3:25 pm. We got to the airport really early (so early that the LAN reps weren't even at the counters yet), after stopping at an Indian village and the ruins at Suillistani on our way from Puno. Well, after waiting for a long time to check in, we went through the security gates. And then it started to rain. And then it started to thunder. By around 3:00 we knew we were in trouble. Eventually, we were told that they [View Full Entry]

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