Cuenca – Festival de Luces 2021

Every year, shortly after sunset on December 7, families gather in front of the Santo Domingo church, and light more than 5000 lanterns in honor of the Our Lady of the Rosary. This is the 88th anniversary of the coronation of the “Morencia Virgin of the Rosary” as the patron saint of Cuenca (our city) […]

Cuenca – Return to Ecuador

After six months in our new paradise home of Hawaii, we returned to our second home in Cuenca. We were in for a series of surprises though… As we arrived at the Honolulu airport, I realized that I had forgotten my glasses. Oops. I was nearly blind for the remainder of the trip to Cuenca, […]

Cuenca Day 20 Lockdown

Along with much of the world, we have been put under “Shelter In Place” restrictions since March 17th, 2020. Today is Day 20 of the lockdown for us in Cuenca, and the current projection is for this to continue through April 30th. Ecuador has taken this very seriously, and has put the entire country under […]

Carnaval Cuenca 2020

When we first arrived in Cuenca in February 2012, we had high expectations for Carnaval. Instead, we found a sleepy town that was mostly shut down, as residents went to the coast or the mountains for the week. Festivities in Cuenca were limited to roaming kids with squirt guns or water balloons. The city has […]

Cuenca Artists Celebrate Cafe Reopening 2020

More than 120 people packed the inside and outside the Casa Azul cafe to welcome the new owners, Jose and Vivi, as they reopened a favorite artist’s haunt originally created by Gregory Kluyskens, a charismatic Belgium entrepreneur. Everyone was asking how we could display 6 artists in such a small gallery. When the furniture was […]

Cuenca New Year’s Eve 2020

How can it be 2020 already? This was a date in the mist of the far off future. The one with flying cars, life expectancy extended to age 150, robots doing laundry, self-driving cars and permanent moon colonies. Yet here it is, and even more amazing, we’re alive to see it! It’s hard to imagine […]

Pase del Nińo Viajero 2019

Christmas Eve is always the biggest event of the year for Cuenca. The parade is called “Pase del Nińo Viajero” or “Passage of the Traveling Child.” This parade has been held every year since the late 19th century. The main guest of honor is a small sculpture of Jesus, that was made in 1823, then […]

Galapagos 2

Our 5-day tour of the Galapagos Islands continue (read part 1 here). There are both Blue-Footed and Red-Footed Boobies on the islands, though we only visited islands with the Blue-Footed variety.  From prior trips, we found them the more interesting anyway, and this time we visited shortly after the chicks had hatched (right-middle and left-bottom). […]

Galapagos 1

Our niece Kerry, and nephew Mark Jones came to visit us for the past week.  Both are from Evelyn’s sister (Pauline) side of the family.  We told both that we would pay for a trip to South America when they graduated college. Mark actually graduated three years ago, and Kerry one year ago, but young […]

Cathedral Domes in Cuenca at Sunset

This is the scene from our living room window at sunset yesterday. After nearly a year of renovation work, the cathedral domes were finally finished while we were traveling the last couple months. I captured this time-lapse last night.

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