Tag: south america
August 31 – September 28, 2024. After Otavalo, we arrived in Quito, Ecuador’s capital. It’s the second-largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 2.8 million. Located in the Andes at about 9350 feet, the air is thin,…
We spent 362 days traveling around South America with backpacks. And although I wasn’t able to keep up with posts about all the places we went, I was able to keep up with our expenses. So here they are, the…
July was a busy month. We moved twice, a friend from the US visited us, and we took 3 1/2 weeks of Spanish classes. The first 5 days were spent in the Manila area of Poblado finishing up the 4-week…
June started for us somewhere in the air on the way to South America. We saw the sunrise on our layover in Panama and landed in full daylight in Cartagena. We had come to Colombia to fulfill our plan of…
