I jumped off a bridge today in Baños but since we're more than a week behind on blogging I'll wait and tell that story another day. What can I say; I'm a sucker for a dramatic first line. Almost 4 months into our trip we realized that our leisurely pace won't cut it anymore if we want to hit all the stops on our list and still make it to Patagonia and back home before Thanksgiving. So lately we've been on the move. We had a great last few days in Quito: We vi...

I celebrated the big 3-0 this week in Quito. We had fabulous plans to climb (part of) the highest active volcano in the world - Volcano Cotopaxi, and stay in an old Hacienda there in the national park. Unfortunately I came down with a cold soon after we arrived in Quito a little over a week ago and have spent much of the week resting in our lovely hostal taking full advantage of our ridiculously large cable TV. The good news is we haven't scrapped the volcano/hac...