I watched a 10 minute video on Live and Invest Overseas yesterday. It says you can live in Ecuador for $700/month and have a very good lifestyle. I am considering it. Where would you like to move? I am curious about the election which takes place next Tuesday. If my candidate wins, I may stay. If not, I may go. 

Where o where in the world to teach?

Where would you go to teach?  Why?

Daryl Kay Driskill Counting 1 to 12 game

How does one turn their blog into a book?

Animals of Ecuador

I was friendly with the dogs until one nipped at my heal.

It is over. What a great experience! I highly reccomend it for anyone considering it!

Quito from the resturant in the Penthouse of the Best Western

A busy street right beside the downtown Mall, QuiCentro.

Map of Ecuador

Typographical map of Ecuador showing the Ave. of Volcanoes going from North to South.

Ave. of the Volcanoes

The avenue of the volcanoes runs the length of Ecuador.
I got to visit the Cotopaxi area 2 weekends ago.

There are many young people teaching in Quito.

This is Lenke, my coworker from Seattle. She and her boyfriend, Ross, have been teaching for 8 months. They
plan to spend a full year in Quito. This is the norm for Inlingua. I am the only person I know who got to stay
for a short 3 months.

The hamburgers at Texas Chicken are
so messy they even give you
plastic gloves to keep
one's hands clean.

Susanah, the receptionist at Nestle, and I share lunch.

I have my first shrimp ceviche and she has the fried shrimp.

The 10 minute cable car ride up the mountain overlooking all of Quito.

The market at Latacunga.

This is a picture taken of me last May when I received my Oxford Seminar Certificate.

Daryl and Doug, her instructor.

The flowers in Ecuador are amazing!

Just bought a dozen beautiful roses for $3.50. They look gorgeous in my apartment.

Oswald Guaysamin famous Quitoan painter

Joys of travel = Meeting other adventurous folks.

     James, from England, and Isabel, from Polland met 8 months ago in India. They have been traveling together since they met. I loved seeing their photos of Bolivia and hearing about the book they had published of 100 favorite photos in India.

     We had a delightful conversation over a fabulous dinner prepared by our hosts at the farm, Marco and Margarita in Tigua, Ecuador.

A night on the farm, an unexpected treat!

     My trip began on Thursday. I got out of my apartment by 10:15 am. I went to Latacungo, Ecuador. That is where I am now, after spending two lovely days in Sasquisili and Tigua. I went to the art gallery in Tigua, thinking I could stay at the hostel beside it. That hostel has been closed for remodeling for 2 years, I discovered. I met the famous painter, Alfredo Toaquiza, and his wife and son. For $5 they took me back down the rode a couple of miles to a place I had read about in the Lonely Planet Guide to Ecuador. It turned out to be a great place to stay with a hospitable couple who have been married for 30 years. The farmhouse is 128 years old and it has been in his family for generations.

Teleferico of Quito, flowers in Ecuador and my walk to work at Nestle.