Travel

Our itinerary Quito-Atlanta: 12:30am Nov. 5 Atlanta-Tokyo: 11pm Nov. 5th Tokyo-Singapore: 6:30am Nov. 7th Singapore-Bali: 11:30pm Nov. 7th We will be in Bali for the next month before Carmen heads to Rome and I visit Shan and Hayden in NZ

Luis’s incredible bb, Matias. He is 3 and can skate better than I can. Carmen gave him a squid that she knitted. We met Luis’ fam and said goodbye to them and Alisson who was living with them but will soon be en route to Colombia. Rose caught a bus back to Cuenca, but we […]

Even got to see Allie again (on my right)!!!!!!! Her indigenous women’s health research seems to be going very well with her host family in Otavalo. Everyone just got back from celebrating La Festival de Mama Negra in Latacunga, an hour South of Quito. Mama Negra: occurs twice a year and is a mix between […]

Vibes Hostel (1) baby sweeps (2) NOT THE TOILET BOIL!!! (3) this photo is ironic foreshadowing for my future post about the Tokyo airport We moved to a hostel downtown. We felt like exploring different hostel experiences and Vibes had a pool, dog, and sauna. The sauna fricked me up. Final verdict: places called Vibes […]

We had no idea if Dani was going to make it back to UIO because he had been working on a permaculture farm in the north with no internet. Then, Friday morning, two days after we had he walked in through the door. Also Dani is a free style rapper and it’s actually incredible but […]

What is home? Home vs. house (I think you can have more than one)

We got back to the Secret Garden on the night of Halloween and said hellloooo the whole staff fam! Rose came to meet us all the way from her homestay in Cuenca (10 hours by bus). Alé and his bffs from the tattoo shop painted faces. Finally met his girlll who is obviously as cool […]