Carrie and I started dating on February 14, 2002, three days after we met. So Valentine’s Day is very special for us. We like to celebrate Valentine’s Day by cooking each other dinner. We’ll be making chicken parmesan and having…
Teleferiqo, a gondola to 13,340 ft. in Quito, Ecuador
The teleferico, or teleferiqo, is a is a gondola that takes you from the west of Quito up volcan Pichincha in Quito, Ecuador. Tips for the teleferico include to get there early, which means catching a cheap taxi from wherever you are in Quito, take a picnic up the Teleferiqo because there are some amazing picnic stops at the top, and take a jacket because it’s a lot colder atop Pichincha than in Quito. El Telef
Quito, Ecuador: Day 2
Today we went to check out our Spanish school (Simon Bolivar), and practice getting there, since we weren’t sure exactly how to do that. Paolo told us that there is a government-sponsored bus that runs down a main road (6.…
Arriving in Quito, Ecuador and checking in to our apartment
Last night, Jonathan and I arranged for a taxi to come pick us up at 5:30am. We were told that we needed to get to the airport (Panama City Tocuman International) 3 hours before our flight. We thought that that…
Panama Viejo and Casco Viejo in Panama City, Panama are not the same thing
Panama Viejo and Casco Viejo in Panama City, Panama are not the same thing… I don’t know why, but for some reason, I thought that Panama Viejo (old town Panama City) was Casco Viejo. I was wrong. This morning, Jonathan…
Posts you may have missed
I just wanted to let all of you know that we updated our site with some posts that we accidentally missed before. But, we dated these posts on the day the event took place, so you might miss them if…
Carrie’s Current countries visited
visited 15 states (6.66%)Create your own visited map of The World On our trip through Central America, I got to add 6 countries to my map of visited countries. It’s too bad not all of them have a stamp representation…
Carrie’s current visited states
visited 32 states (64%)Create your own visited map of The United States I figured that I would post my visited states while I was at it. Same rules apply: I have to have spent the night in the state for…
Chichicastenango on Market Day (AKA: We ARE The Giants from the North)
Chichicastenango Market Guatemala. Open Thursdays and Sundays. Lake Atitlan. Panajachel. At the Chichicastenango market, we saw all kinds of people and items, and learned that in Guatemala (and especially in Chichicastenango), we ARE the giants from the north.