A visit to the equator, Mitad del Mundo, near Quito, Ecuador
Does Ecuador change times?
Frequently asked question of today: Does Ecuador spring forward and fall back (with time zones)? Nope. We were on Eastern Time Zone with the US, now we’re in Central time zone. Thanks for asking! 🙂
Un Presentación de la Pizza
Today, I gave a Presentación (a presentation) in class. My presentación was about how to make pizza, Carrie and Jonathan style. I’m not posting the recipe on line, because the recipe for the dough has
Getting Passport Pages: The United States Embassy in Quito, Ecuador
Getting more pages in our passports was pretty simple. We went out of Quito to the north (actually we were still in Quito, just the US Embassy is a ways outside of town) and they added more pages to our passports for free. Pretty easy to get more pages added to a passport and glad that it didn’t cost anything.
How To Make Empanadas: Empanadas From Plantains in Quito, Ecuador
How To Make Empanadas: At our Spanish school, we took a class to learn how to make Empanadas. This class was taught by one of the teachers at our Spanish school in Quito, Ecuador. At the end, the empanadas were…
How Can You Afford To Travel – Phones
Skype lets us travel. Why we like skype, and how switching to Skype and Phone.com allows and affords us the ability to travel. Through SkypeOut, we make all our outbound calls to the US and Canada (no matter where we are in the world) for $30/year UNLIMITED.
My favorite day so far…being welcomed as part of an Ecuadorian family
Today our Spanish teacher, Maribel, invited us to visit her family with her, in Guaytacama (the small town where she grew up and her father, Manuel, still lives). Jonathan and I were very excited at the idea of seeing how…
La Basilica de Quito, Ecuador: The tallest church tower in South America
Today, our Spanish teacher, Maribel, thought we deserved a treat. So, she took us to the basilica in Quito (La Basilica de Quito – clever name right?). It’s only a short bus ride and a few blocks walk from our…
How Can You Afford To Travel?
A good friend of mine from high school who I haven’t heard from in some time sent me this message on Facebook: You know I’ve been thinking a lot. In our recession, how is it that you and Carrie can…
The Lost Generation?
Thanks to my sister Deanna for sending this to me. I really like it.