the Laughing Boomer

Our days in Quito are coming to a close, unfortunately.  We've been busy the last few days. On Saturday we climbed the city's hills to visit a fabulous art collection by Ecuador's most famous artist Guaysamin. On Sunday we drove to the Pasochoa Refugio and, with our guide Wilson, saw about thirty species of birds, including a wonderful long billed hummingbird.  Last night we had dinner with our new friend, Isabelle, who is now working for the French Embassy and hopefully over the next couple of days we will go out with some other couples we met.

 We've found the city enchanting, very livable and hard to leave.  We both took Spanish lessons for a few days and that has helped immensely.  Should have done it before!  Also met some great people there.  It is truly amazing how easy it is to meet people.  I think if we stayed here six months we would have quite a social life.  But, with the help of our travel agent, another Isabel, round-the-world tickets.  Next is Brazil, more specifically Rio and then Argentina, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Turkey and Spain.

Onward to our next adventure

Mahara and Ken