All acclimatized, we picked up our guide Pablo near Quito. He would spend the next 4 days travelling in the van with us, the first time we had another traveler with us since Nikki’s sister Kyra came to visit in Costa Rica. Try to find a guide who’s willing to live with you in a […]

We crossed into Ecuador in late January, in the beginning of the rainy season. This didn’t bode very well for our plans in the country with some serious mountains. When we arrived, the weather was fairly dreary, clouds overhanging the hills. This wasn’t helped by the naked hills of northern Ecuador, which seem to have […]