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video post: departing the U.S. for our round-the-world adventure

Betsy and Warren posing with 2 backpacks

Hola! Despite the efforts of the Ecuadorian government to keep us out, we landed safely in Quito on Saturday evening after almost 24 hours of travel. We took the redeye on Friday night to Dallas, then another flight to Miami for a long layover, where we enjoyed a leisurely lunch in Little Havana with our [...]

video post: the adventure begins

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.” ~ GK Chesterton This is it! The day we have planned for over 2 years has arrived. How are we feeling? Any last-minute problems? Tune in to find out about our last 6 weeks in Seattle, the going away party last night, and of course the attempted coup [...]

Video Post: How the Itinerary Starts

Oh my god. Did I just say the word “itinerary?” It sounds so…planned. And that’s not really the way I want this to go, at least not like people generally think of planning a trip. Watch as Warren and I discuss the first stop on our trip and why we chose to begin in Ecuador. [...]

We bought our plane tickets!

Photo by L. Marcio Ramalho via Flickr

Yes, we are officially on our way to Ecuador on October 1, 2010 at 11:55 p.m.  A redeye from Seattle to Miami with a long layover on October 2 will allow us to have lunch with our friend Pat before we board the plane to Otavalo. How much did this flight cost us?  $100! How [...]

The generosity of strangers

Photo by One Laptop Per Child via Flickr

Later this week two of our friends will be delivering a laptop courtesy of another friend to a student in Ecuador.  The friends don’t know each other, and we don’t know the boy in Ecuador – yet.  It all came about through a request from our friends Jim and Mimi, who own the house we [...]