Pictures of Quito from our balcony We got a new camera (which I love) for Christmas from our parents and families. There’s a problem with the lens (has a black smudge somewhere inside) which mysteriously appeared one day in Panama…
Cuatro Rosas
Jonathan sings cuatro rosas.
Weird Food: Eating Cuy (Guinea Pig) in Quito, Ecuador
On a Friday afternoon after Spanish class, Carrie and I paid $5 to take part in a tradition that is one of the 5 things you must do while in Ecuador. These pictures are from the tradition of eating cuy,…
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…
How We’ve Spent The Last Few Days
There’s not much newsworthy to report when you spend a few days in a hotel in Costa Rica, working on a computer and talking on the phone (We use Skype for most of our calling – Carrie’s actually on the…
Tourism Map of Central America: Our Map from 3 months of Travel
In three months, we visited 6 countries, covered over 2,500 land miles (mostly by bus) and saw some really amazing places. We also met some truly fantastic people – both people who are involved in tourism as tourists and tourist…
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…
We Are Snails
Today, we leave central America to head back “home”. It’s funny to use the word home because so many places have been our home over the past three months. Carrie likes to say that we are snails. Why? We take…