Our family are big fans of pizza! What family isn’t right? Well, we always make a point of finding a pizza shop in the towns we visit, and try the local flavors. Surprisingly, or not, there are some pretty good pizza’s in Latin America that certainly beat the U.S. national pizza chains. We do see...
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We have already taken 10′s of thousands of photos and I have kept maybe 30% of these. Just the process of managing our photos has turned into quite the project. I was working on these yesterday and thought I would post some of my favorite of the kids and Gina…maybe one or two of the...
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I read a discussion the other day about slow travel and what it meant. The debate was fairly heated, which seems a little silly to me because I think that the term can mean different things to different people and still be acceptable. But apparently we need one definition. I also found out that the...
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We were sitting in our favorite banana split shop, the 4 of us enjoying the marvelous concoctions of fresh banana’s, handmade Blackberry, Pineapple, and Mango sobet, topped with rich whipped cream, when 3 other folks entered the shop and sat down at the table next to us. Are you from America? The question coming from...
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One of the reasons for deciding to spend some time traveling as a family was for all of us to learn more about different cultures. We believe it is important for our children to develop an understanding and respect for cultures outside of their own, and believe that there is much to learn traveling to...
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We have already developed quite an extensive list of our favorite food places in town after only a week. Granted some of these are familiar to us from our visit last March, but most are new to us and the result of just walking the streets, exploring, willing to try new foods. You can get...
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La Calera is a small village inhabited primarily by a local indigenous tribe, the Quechua. The town of Cotacachi Ecuador is surrounded by small villages like these, and is what gives the town its sense of culture and family. We have met several families from this village, and consider a couple of the families friends. ...
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As promised, I have posted the story and pictures of our visit this morning to a local school for their x-mas program. I took well over 400 photos, cut it down to around 120, and will cut them down again before I upload them to the web. I will post all of them on Flickr. ...
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Our x-mas this year will be a simple affair, both by design as well as circumstance. There is an overall design related to selling our stuff back home and changing our lifestyle, and a more specific design of a conscious effort to simply our lives…this certainly includes x-mas. Our circumstances this year put us in...
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Can you hear it? Silence…. IF you are sitting in a small Ecuadorian village in the Andes that is, if you are in the U.S. right about now (December 20th) you hear anything but silence. It is only 5 days until x-mas and we have not heard one radio or television ad marketing diamonds, the...
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