New Year’s Eve day was warm with just enough clouds to add character to the sky New Year’s Eve this year was rather subdued, when compared to last year. All the same activities were there, but fewer of each. Fewer effigies in doorways and on car tops. Fewer neighborhood competition displays. Fewer firecrackers. Fewer fires. […]
Massive Pase del Niños Viajero Parade
Niños Viajero statue is center of attention Every Christmas Eve, Cuenca puts on a massive parade that goes all day, from 8AM till around 6PM, and consists of some 60,000 participants (in a city of only 400,000 residents!). We first saw this last year, and you can read that post and see those photographs here. […]
Visa is Approved !
Cuenca Immigration Office Our Ecuadorian resident visa has been approved! As with all things government, there are still some paperwork steps before we have it in our hands, but we received an approval email two days ago, and were told to go to the immigration office today to get the next phase of papers to […]
Random Walk Through Cuenca #3 (Dec 2013)
View through our condo living room window Last year I wrote a “Random Walk Through Cuenca” post after about a month here, and another one a couple weeks later. These were collections of random thoughts I had about Cuenca that did not warrant a blog post unto themselves, but were things I wanted to pass […]
A Day At The Immigration Office
Or How Three NO’s Were Turned Into a YES Today we were finally ready to go to the Immigration Office to apply for our Ecuadorian Residency Visa. We have heard several times not to expect to get anything else done when you do this, and they were sooo right! I thought it might be interesting […]
Terrorist Comes Home to Ecuador
We bought a one-way First Class ticket to Ecuador, intending to fly two weeks ago. After the broken ankle incident (see ‘Break a Leg!” blog entry), we finally used the tickets today. We have never actually paid for a First Class ticket before, so this was kinda exciting. Since we are moving to Ecuador, we […]
California Farewell Sunset
As we are packing for our move to Ecuador, California decided to send us off with a grand farewell sunset. One of the strangest and most exotic we have seen in years. Unfortunately, all my “real” camera equipment was long packed, and I was confined to crutches due to my clumsy broken ankle, so all […]
Break a Leg!
We were supposed to be arriving in Ecuador about now, and arriving at our new penthouse condo in Cuenca a little after midnight. Less than 12 hours before we were to leave for the San Francisco airport, we were still finishing the last minute packing. Evelyn was saying “there is no way we can finish […]
Coming Home, Buying Home, Selling Home…
We returned home to California last week. Seems strange to be back in The States again, and strange to be going into an office for a thing called a “job” again. It is amazing how quickly we were able to adapt to life in Ecuador. Which brings up a bit of news. We decided around […]
Don’t Rain On My Parade
or Halloween In January?? [Note: I haven’t posted for a few days because I have been sick with a bad head cold, and have been staying mostly indoor for the past couple days. This will probably be our last post before returning home Tuesday.] Today marks the end of Santos Inocentes, and includes the second […]
