Gonna be a rather long post tonight, as this was a busy day with lots of stuff happening. I have attempted to add subtitles tonight, to let you tune in where desired, or skip areas you are not interested in. Driver Recommendation We had three different people recommend Angel Panchez (phone: 0985899643, email: anhelp_68@yahoo.com) as […]
The President Stole Our Van!
We made reservations a few days ago for a shared van at 9:00 this morning to take us from Cuenca to Guayaquil. From there, we planned on taking a public bus to Salinas. We arrived early for our van… and found the company closed with nobody around…? I called the phone number on the business […]
Luggage, Mercado de Animales & Thanksgiving
This was a pretty full day. Probably the biggest news for us was the final culmination of The Great Luggage Journey. We went out to the airport this morning to get Pauline’s luggage… only to be told it still wasn’t here and “will definitely be on the next flight from Quito.” Since this was our […]
One Pig, One Woman
Today started off with routine. Breakfast at home, followed by taking laundry 3 blocks to our favorite Laundromat. We then walked a few blocks to make reservations for a van to take us to Guayaquil on Friday (first stop on our trip to Salinas). The van took a couple of stops, since the first couple […]
Pauline Arrives… sans Luggage
This past weekend we noted that we visited an art friend’s home, and fell in love with it. We were wondering what the neighborhood would be like living in that part of town, so yesterday we took the Blue Bus for 25 cents to there and wandered the neighborhood. At first it appeared to be […]
Failed Canar Animal Market Tour
We had arranged for a tour driver to take us to Canar early this morning to see the Sunday Animal Market there, which is the supposed to be the largest in the region. Unfortunately, our driver did not understand what we were trying to photograph, and by the time we got there, it had pretty […]
Tiestro & A Farewell Dinner
Today was pretty dreary weather all day, lightly raining most of the day, and pouring at times. I mostly stayed indoors and did some software development for LeapFrog. In the evening, we went with our neighbors, William and Anne (click for their blog),to Tiestro’s for dinner. They are leaving tomorrow, heading to Panama for a […]
Skyfall and Mercado el Arenal
Last things first. We ended the day by watching SkyFall (the latest James Bond movie) at the local theater. We had a choice of watching it in Spanish or in English with Spanish subtitles. We chose the later. As the movie started, I whispered to Evelyn that it was horizontally squashed. It looked like the […]
Market plus Jazz Society
This morning we went out looking for a new adventure… in getting a haircut. See the separate blog entry from earlier today on that excitement. After my hair fit on my head again, we went looking for another almuerzos restaurant (it seems we could go to a new one every day and not run out […]
Fooled Again!
We have heard several Cuencanans tell us that the weather here is unpredictable. We are starting to sing that same tune… We left the apartment for lunch around 11:30 this morning. The sky was clear and sunny, with some clouds far on the horizon. We figured it wouldn’t rain for several hours, so no need […]