Have no idea where the days go but they are zooming by – very hard to believe we have been in Ecuador now for almost 3 weeks. Such an interesting village this is. Rich and I were just chatting over lunch (ok, it is 2:15 but it is our afternoon meal) and I came to the conclusion that Bahia Caraquez (called just Bahia) is just that, a village – but a village with high rise (8 or so floors) apartment buildings. There are no supermarkets, no expensive or sophisticated restaurants, no department stores, no industrial manufactures, no….. There are, however, friendly people, a mercado (open market with various vendors) that supplies the town with basic food, and many small inexpensive store front type ma and pa places to eat. It is, all in all, a small town where everyone knows everyone else.
We started walking every morning and are now greeting and being greeted by the other walkers. They see us in town and stop to chat as we visit the internet in the afternoon. We are taking Spanish classes each morning, as well, and feel as though progress is slowly plodding in a positive direction. Francisco, our teacher, is a wonderfully patient man. Good thing! As always, we are attempting to balance the investigation of our surroundings with boat tasks and maintenance. Somehow we thought that with so much time in one anchorage there would be huge amounts of time to just work on projects such as varnish, polish, sewing…. Funny, but there are so few hours in the day that we are scrambling just to complete the smaller task list.
For example, this morning we started our walk early, at 6:30 am, so we could be showered and ready for breakfast in front of Puerto Almasted’s TV. Ecuador played and won their second game in the World Cup! Talk about excitement! Cruisers and Ecuadorians yelling and jumping and dancing. What fun. The government declared a national holiday and everyone is celebrating as I write. Music, honking of horns, people hooting with joy. Way cool. Today they played Costa Rica – Ecuador won 3 to 0. Poor Costa Rica. Who would have figured we would be in Ecuador watching them compete in the World Cup?
More travel adventures via land travel are planned for August and September. August to Ecuador’s interior and September to Peru. Looks like we’ll be headed for the Galapagos in late October, early November with Ceilidh, then back to Panama. For now, we are just enjoying each day and the adventures that appear.
I’ll blast up new photos at the same time as this post, so here is the photo link:
http://public.fotki.com/svceilidh/ecuador/
Best viewed by selecting the "slideshow" feature.
Wish it were easier to include photos intext but the whole BLOG tends to bomb when photos are included. Rich and I think about starting a web site but it still seems too much like work – UGH! Besides, we can BLOG from our boat’s email and that is very wonderful. So much still to say but I’ll get to it next time. Love and hugs to all from us
from the yin side
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