In the andes

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Let me start by saying the computer just deleted my entire post and I have to retype it.

Traveling now Quito-Riobamba-Cuenca-Riobamba-Banos-Puyo next?

The night before leaving I get sick. Nasty sick. Like the kind of sick you get when you drink too much ditch water and pee. Ceviche...shrimp ceviche...Old Town Quito...Julie eats the same shit and doesn´t get sick...yet...I projectile vomit into the hallway after our housemate gives me some curare´made of grapefruit seed extract and frothy vitamin c extract. Instant emetic evacuation!


The air in Quito is like soup...people get rid of their catalytic converters to save gas money, gas is set at 1.48 per gallon by law. Diesel, 98 cents. So it can be hard to breath at time...so we travel...

The Andes

We get to Riobamba...a 5 hour bus ride from Quito on the way to our destination of Cuenca, a beautiful clean old city. Back to the Bamba. On the bus everyone tries to sell you something...paptitaspaptitaspaptitaspaptitaspaptitaspaptitas.....chifleschifleschifles....They extol the virtues of teh candy bard which they proudly remove from their briefcases.



Julie gets sick in Cuenca. Yaks alot. In the street. Talk about nasty street food...She gets better. Nothing to do in Riobamba but climbing Chimborozo or riding the Nariz del Diablo(which is being repaired.) SO WE´LL IGNORE THAT FOR NOW.

View from our hostal in Cuenca

Julie peeping on the germans!

Cuenca in the next post!

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