Waiting Room

What We Should Be Doing With Our Summer

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July 17th 2008
While we were out stuffing our faces with seafood the other night, we came across a big group of American doctors eating in the same restaurant. From eaves dropping on their conversation, we established that they were a Christan medical mission. Kit wanted to go and make friends. I was very much against this, due to my irrational phobia of evangelical chrstians. Yes, this is a little mean. But in ... read more

South America » Ecuador » West » Canoa

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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