Portable Parents Blog

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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It is less than a 2 hour flight from the capital of Panama, Panama City, to the capital of Ecuador, Quito, but the cities could not be more different. You feel as if you have gone back in time actually, from the new skyscrapers and frantic pace of the banking district of Panama, to the...

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Well finally figured out how to create and post a video online. The Oscar is probably safe this year…but we will keep our eye on it for next year. Everyone had a hand making this, we all took turns shooting footage. The video shows the kids interacting with the white face Capuchin monkeys in Montezuma,...

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We need to catch a bus. We need to get from point A to point B. Zoo Ave is the destination, a bird zoo located only 6 miles outside of the town of Alajuela, Costa Rica. How hard could it be…we have a guide book, a map, directions from the proprietor of the B&B we...

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