May 29 Writing this on the 31st in order to finally catch up. This has definitely been a lot faster-paced than any other travel we’ve ever done. Even those of you who went with us the UK tours we organized in 2005 and 2011 – no complaints! On the 29th we all had breakfast together, got issued our official birding journeys tee-shirts and rubber boots, and packed into the van, which holds the 8 on the tour, Sarah & her husband Eloi, our tour mgrs., and Daniel, our amazing smart birding guide. They have snacks, coffee, water, birding books, hiking sticks, First Aid kits (Sarah is a nurse) and quite frankly we could have left about 6# of stuff home. We haven’t actually seen Quito yet, as the A/P is now east of the city, not
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