Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day In Quito
Many will leave disappointed. Alternate caption: Picture I took five minutes before I got robbed. P.S. My newest book is called 30 Bangs. It's about 30 of my bangs. Click here to learn more about the...
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On my third day. August 10 is Quito’s Independence Day, but the celebration started the night before. I was observing a staged reenactment in Plaza Grande until I got bored and decided to walk back to...
View ArticleLadies Night For Real
We all know that ladies night promotions are a scam by club owners to attract more men into a bar. The reason, of course, is because men drink a lot more than women. I’ve never been to a ladies night...
View ArticleIs It Safe?
Side view, no joke: Most of the ride was on pavement, but I could have done without the one hour long skidding on mud at the edge of a cliff thing. P.S. My newest book is called 30 Bangs. It's about...
View ArticleThe Two Prostitutes Of Tena
Tena is the whitewater capital of Ecuador. Before I bent over some Class IV rapids on the Jondachi River with my monstrous rowing stroke, I studied the townspeople by watching them from a park bench in...
View ArticleEcuador Means Equator In Spanish
Joe T, prolific commenter and traveler, is starting his own travel site called Volette. Right now the blog is up, of which you will find my first contribution about Quito: Mitad del Mundo is the...
View ArticleThe Boob Of Baños
I’ve been getting requests for pictures of girls, so I did you one better and got you some partial nudity of a full-figured woman. I took this one day before my camera fell and broke in an ill-fated...
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There is a British girl who I keep running into (Lonely Planet = seeing the same people again and again and again). She’s very cute but I concluded early on that she is not serious about sex; she never...
View ArticleGirl Vs Guy Travel
I talked to a girl who showed me a stack of napkins with notes written in Spanish by Ecuadorian men, mostly waiters. She couldn’t understand them so I translated. They were all along these lines: It...
View ArticleListen To Me, Not The NY Times
With great interest I checked out the Times 53 Places To Go In 2008. Cool there is Buenos Aires, which is fun but not the best city in Argentina. There is Easter Island which I lie about going to with...
View ArticleEcuador Death Road & We’re Pretty Much Homeless
I’m editing my next video production, which will be ready on Monday. Here’s two other very short videos you may have not seen. The first is called Ecuador Death Road. Captions throughout help guide you...
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