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This is the first part of a multi-part story of getting thrown out of Ecuador and our amazing race to leave the country in 7 days.
Part 1
It is about 4 pm on a Friday…we arrived in Quito, Ecuador a few...
More than a year ago I was searching the web for stories of people that had embarked on a journey similar to the one we were contemplating. Stories of families selling all of their possessions, getting out of the rat race, simplifying their lives, and spending their time traveling to different parts of the world.
I...
Some may view our life as one without purpose or direction. We do not know what tomorrow will bring, or where we will sleep in a month, or what the next 40 years holds for us. It is a life currently without possessions or the encumbrances we have come to associate with success. We don’t...
A quick update. We have not had many posts this week and I’ll share a little bit about what is slowing that down, as well as our current travel plans. But first…
Last night the power went out in town. The power goes off a couple times a month…as does the water and...
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...
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...
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...
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. Gina...
Look at me, 2 posts in 1 day. Ok, so here is an example of a story that I obviously should have written at the time (September 23rd, 2008) but never did. Actually this is a pretty extreme example because it was a pretty fun experience an not something you get to do...
The original idea of this blog was a way of keeping family and friends aware of where we were at in the world, and providing a little color commentary of our travels. Not sure it has accomplished either one of these goals, but we still have fun writing about them.
I have found however that...
