Cafayate

While it may have started out as a normal town, Cafayate is now a genuine Tourist Destination. Their claim to fame is wine, and lots of it. The town itself is very small and completely surrounded by vineyards. You can visit most of them and the producers who are more than a 1o [...]

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The British are leaving! The British are leaving!

One light if by land, tow if by sea? Wait a minute…
Last weekend we said good bye to our four British volunteers. There were my trout farm kids who spent three months working with us. We had a great last couple of days before they took off for a tour of Cuzco and [...]

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Mountain Bikes, Pie, and Hydro-electricity OH MY!

So….my last post said quick update and I’ll post again soon, eh? Sorry about that one. We’ve been living up at the lodge, which has no electricity (and definitely no internet), so I’ve been slow to write up new posts.
We are working at The Way Inn, mostly at the lodge. We’ve done [...]

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Let Them Eat Yucca

Pan de yucca (yucca bread) has become one of my favorite foods here in Ecuador. It is a dense, kind of sticky on the inside, almost sweet bread. It is normally served with yogurt. This week, we have discovered something even better than pan de yucca….DEEP FRIED pan de yucca!

There is a festival going on [...]

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Macroeconomics in the Snack Food Aisle

This weekend we plan on going backpacking for a few days. Food wise, this means we’ll want to pack a bit more variety than we can find at our local market, so we took our first trip to SuperMaxi, Ecuador’s biggest and fanciest supermarkets. SuperMaxi is pretty much what you would think of as a [...]

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I blame Chris and Sue for this…

At our going away/Chris’s bday celebration, Sue kept making/taking bets on which one of us would fall prey to the traveler’s curse…food poisoning…first. Here you go Sue. Liz 2, Ben1. Liz first, but Ben worse.

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