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…
Quito Ecovia in Rush Hour: The Quito Bus System
The city bus system along the 6th of December Avenue is called the Ecovia. Eco (Economical/Ecologically friendly) Via (way) This map is oriented so that West is UP, and NORTH is to the right. We live to the west of…
Where Have You Been?
Carrie &Jonathon, I’m confused looking at your site… you guys have traveld a lot looks like… where all have u been? james Hey James! Well, we have done a lot of travel in the past, but since October, we’ve been
Alex’s Birthday in Quito
Carrie and I have really enjoyed getting to spend time with some new friends here in Quito. Some of our new friends are Alex and Kyra (who you’ve probably seen in previous posts), Hillary (from the US), and Duc (pronounced…