Turkiye – Day One – Flying to Istanbul
Day one of our expedition to Turkiye started with over 30 hours of travel! We woke up at 3:00AM on the 30th of October to drive down to Seattle for our first flight to Paris. Traffic was easy and we…
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Changes…
I’ve been playing around with the structure of my website. The top menu has been removed in favour of the featured pages list at the bottom. I removed the stuff on the right side of the homepage so that the…
Gypsy Sister’s Run – June 2023
Back in the fall of 2019, our GWRRA District Ride Coordinator, Keiller Gowans, was working on a 4 day run down to Sisters, Oregon and back. He spent countless hours designing a route that would encompass many of the twistiest…
Cotacachi – A Foodie’s Dream…
I went for a walk this morning to find the new supermarket in town, the San Martin Supermercado. It is a bit of a hike for me, living in the centre of town. It is kind of on the outskirts…
A Visit to a Craftsman Shop
While on my morning walk today I came across this shop on the road coming back into town. I peeked into the window and there was a craftsman inside working on a carving. He noticed me and came to the…
Cotacachi Botanical Garden
It was a great morning for a walk with high overcast clouds allowing me to see the tops of the mountains unobscured. Chuck and Susan and I headed out towards the outskirts of town to locate the botanical gardens. We…
Leather Street
Many of my posts mention ‘Leather Street’, so named for the many stores that offer finely crafted leather products. The actual street name is ’10 de Augusto’. I took a walk down about a three block stretch of the street…
A Morning Walk
I met up with Chuck and Susan Bussey again this morning for a ‘short’ walk. After it was all said and done, we did over 5 kilometers through a very scenic area just outside of town. After all the rain…
Pickleball in Cotacachi!
While having a taste of wine yesterday at the Fonda wine store, I ran into a nice lady from Burnaby, BC. – Eileen Floyd. She mentioned that she played pickleball here in Cotacachi and invited me to join the online…
Market Day
Thursdays are market day for a lot of the expats living in Cotacachi. There is a very well attended market held in an outdoor parkade next to one of the central squares in town. Since the weather has dried out…