02 May 2007

Quito, land of lost baggage

Yea, first thing that can go wrong. Continental lost my bag somewhere in Houstan, guess I shouldn´t have tried to bring all those nudie mags with me, all the customs guys got stuck reading them. I have still had a great trip. I met the nicest people on the way down: A nice couple in LAX on their way to Sonoma, and a guy, Matt and his kid jackson from Memphis on the plane to Houstan. Wow, Memphis is a much different place than LA, apparently if you don´t have a concealed weapon you are just asking to get robbed! And on January first everybody in town waterskis in 25 degree weather on the Mississippi! Sounds like I need to visit.

Quito is great though, Mark picked me up from the airport last night, sans backpack, and I spent the day walking around the old town. Old town Quito is all colonial buildings and is pretty much identical to Spain. Everybody wears suits and it feels really safe which is nice. There are even old men napping in the main plaza, just like Spain! There are two large volcanos on the east and west sides of the city so the city only runs north south. Tomorrow, I am going to go to the Mitad del Mundo, and see the correalis effect, and other such fun stuff. This weekend Mark, his girlfriend Aline and I will go to the beach. Apparently it is the best time to go as it is winter. Next week I am goiong on a 3-4 day jungle tour in the oriente, just to make sure all those vaccines I got really work.

8 comments:

Jay T. said...

Pretty much identical to Spain, eh? Well it's a good thing the Spaniards colonized the place, then. Talk about a good find. They could just send their people over and they wouldn't even know the difference!

In other Hispanic-related news, I have found 3 Spanish speakers in the immediate vicinity of this town. 1 is the hot new nurse of my school, who lived in, actually I think Ecuador for 2 years. The other is a very white girl from Minnesota who spent time in Madrid, and the 3rd is a Mexican lady from Mexico City, who gives the appearance of mentally undressing you everytime she says anything at all to you in Spanish. Naturally, that makes conversation both fun and terrifying. I'm sure you'll experience this soon. Good lucky Nicky

Unknown said...

Que bueno que hallas llegado bien!! espero que disfrutes mucho!

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