 | Melancholy and newworlds
2005-08-13, Quito, Ecuador. By: mynewlife | | I have arrived at Ecuador and fallen into a most dismal place,, my hotel. It seems although it covers for a hotel is more like a motel, with couples coming in and out like ants in an ant hill. the goo... |
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 | Some good cooking
2005-08-11, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | These last couple of days have been especially good.
I officially ended my internship with World Vision. I am just too tired getting over the pneumonia to be up and out the door every morning at 8a... |
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 | Itīs an awfully small world
2005-08-09, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | After a beautiful weekend at Casa Mojanda in Otavalo, Jeremy and I returned to Quito and I saw him off at the airport. It was sad because he had really had a tough week with me. Lots of watching me mo... |
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| The Quito life
2005-07-29, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | Ok, the thing I find most irritating in the world is having to share the internet here at my hostal with other travelers. I think of them as tourists. Hey, I have been here for a month now. I live her... |
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| Long live Castro?
2005-07-27, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | So for all of you who were desperately wondering how my hemmed jeans turned out, it was quite a fiasco. The man turned them under with lovely black thread. Sort of ended up looking like menīs trousers... |
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| How to hem your jeans in Ecuador
2005-07-25, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | Beautiful Monday noon in Quito. Clear blue sky, spring green mountains, light breeze. The past 3 or 4 days in Quito have been so beautiful. It is always fairly temperate here but definitely the best w... |
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| Out of sorts
2005-07-23, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | So today is Saturday and we are all a bit out of sorts (as my English friends like to say.)
We didnīt travel anywhere since we are all run down with colds and more stomach problems. Had two very lo... |
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| Thoughts on life on the street
2005-07-21, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | Nothing too exciting is happening here. Everything is much better at World Vision. They have discovered that I am a gifted data entry person so I feel like I am useful in that way. Today I also did so... |
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| A nightmare at World Vision and stinky salsa man
2005-06-14, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | Thursday. 5:30pm. Writing from the school.
Thank God tomorrow is Friday. It has been a long week.
The good news is that I have time now to upload some photos so check back a couple of stories to see... |
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| An adventure
2005-07-11, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | I apologize if this entry is confusing. I had to copy and past it from notes and the website is being testy with formatting. So it is a little confusing but I donīt have time to try and fix it again.
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| A strange chirping...
2005-07-06, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | I have decided to post about my day here because I donīt know that there will be time tomorrow and next week when my internship starts I think that I will lose a lot of my free time.
So the mysteri... |
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| Spanish class, salsa lessons, and the altitude
2005-07-06, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | It is cold this morning. I should have brought more sweaters and less sandals.
Yesterday I had my first day of Spanish lessons which consisted of 4 hours one on one conversation with my poor profe... |
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 | Bed bug and breakfast juice
2005-07-05, Quito, Ecuador. By: ajcox | | Please excuse any terrible punctuation. The international keyboard is a little hard to manage...
So after a very comfortable flight in the exit row yesterday, I arrived in Quito and pushed my way t... |
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 | Marathon
2005-04-20, Quito, Ecuador. By: supernova | | You can do a lot in a lifetime
If you don't burn out too fast
You can make the most of the distance
First you need endurance
First you've got to last...
Today is my last day in Ecuador.... |
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 | One Little Victory
2005-04-09, Quito, Ecuador. By: supernova | | The measure of the moment
In a difference of degree
Just one little victory
A spirit breaking free
One little victory
The greatest act can be
One little victory
It was as if the Amazon jungle... |
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 | Visas, Rum, and Jail...
2005-03-28, Quito, Ecuador. By: viajeros | | For those that I may have misled, no we did not end up in jail by drinking rum and losing our visas... Here is our latest passings.
QUITO, ECUADOR: A lot of waiting. The plan was to stay in Quit... |
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 | Our jungle book
2005-03-26, Quito, Ecuador. By: snutbrown | | Oh no, weīve done it again 10 days this time. Deep breaths then and weīll begin
The thermal baths in Baņos were really nice it was almost like having a bath, which I in particular have missed ... |
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 | Inca Trail, Amazon
2004-12-23, Quito, Ecuador. By: nickvdp | | 6 Dec 2004 - Titicaca Border Guards, Floating Islands, Dodgy Buses
Well finally escaped from Titacaca after being trapped there for the elections, not that we were complaining too much
the borde... |
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 | Where to next?
2004-10-23, Quito, Ecuador. By: S0ck3t | | After a lot of badgering by Kevin, and a lot of mumblings about cost and not loving me from my family...(only joking mum!) - I've changed my itinerary. I am now pretty much skipping Chile and Argentin... |
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 | Yo puedo hablar espaņol!
2004-10-20, Quito, Ecuador. By: S0ck3t | | Thanks for all your advice about giving presents. In the end I opted for "sounding out" their thoughts on London, the monarchy etc. It turns out the mother is a big fan and loves the buildings in Lond... |
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| How wrong can you be...
2004-10-14, Quito, Ecuador. By: S0ck3t | | Somehow I had imagined that staying with a host family in a third world country would be difficult. There should be no space to sleep, cockroaches running up the walls and babies crying all night. Or ... |
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 | Jungle is Massive!
2004-10-03, Quito, Ecuador. By: melanie | | Were now in Quito and are going out for our final group dinner tonight to mark the end of our Dragoman trip. Before the tears start let me tell you about our last week with Dragoman. The last day in B... |
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 | wow what a night... at 333 am
2004-07-02, quito, Ecuador. By: quitobean | | Wow. WHAT a night. It was a nearly full moon when I left the house and I couldnt help but notice that absolutely everything was going trippy on me. I took the ecovia to mariscal to call my parents... |
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| parting pensamientos
2004-07-01, quito, Ecuador. By: quitobean | | Some words of wisdom on coming home to the states that I thought I would remind myself of:
mmm i am trying to think of something to tell you that will make adjusting back to the states a little ea... |
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