Hey again, I am currently sitting in the South American Explorer´s Club House in Quito, where I just bought a yearlong membership. It was a little expensive, BUT there is free internet, a lot of information and the ability for people to send me letters that I will eventually get! but more on that later. Last time I wrote was from Atacames in the Esmeraldas area of Ecuador. After I last wrote... Monday the 24th: I biked a couple of kilometers down to Sua, a...

NOT quite in Quito yet, give me two more days. Right now am in Bellingham Washington with some friends from school, packing two days early. On my flight down from Alaska to here, my two days of packing rapidly turned into 30 minutes, in which my dad and myself threw anything and everything (except the bike) into the big green duffel bag before running to the plane. Everything made it OK, but at that point I still had only ridden the bike for a grand total of 8 mi...

Holy Poop, not actually in Quito, but have one more week in Alaska and have: An unfinished bike, a worrying mother, NO TIME AT ALL, lots of things to do to get ready, and I'm very tired. I leave Washington on the 16th of September, and leave here the 5th. If I am not ready in a week I will have a cow. Literally, I will give birth to a cow. Ouch.