These are my stories.....
Here I am again in my little corner of paradise – Cotacachi, Ecuador. I arrived a couple of days ago. The flight with Air Canada was uneventful with a short layover in Houston before landing in Quito just after midnight Read More …
Here I am back in Cotacachi, this time for a two month stay. It is sort of a retirement test drive, just making absolutely positive that this is the spot where Giselle and I will make our home sometime in Read More …
As travel restrictions were beginning to wind down from COVID, Giselle and I needed to return to Cotacachi to get more coffee! Actually, we were just yearning to go back to experience more of our paradise. We stayed in the Read More …
We have finally made up our minds that Ecuador was where we would plan to possibly retire. We flew down again in August 2019 for another stay. This time, we decided that we would see more of the small town Read More …
Well, we just can’t get enough of this beautiful little town in north central Ecuador! After a nice lunch at Hornados “Dona Mary” at the market up by the bus depot. ($2.50 each) we headed out on another ‘discovery walk’, Read More …
On Saturday morning we attended a pancake breakfast fundraiser for the Place of Hope soup kitchen in Cotacachi. This project was started by Micky Enright, a local realtor and expat living in Cotacachi. They serve breakfast to the elderly and Read More …
We were kept awake most of the night from the workers setting up tents and a stage in Matriz Park, then the gardeners cleaning the park with their gas powered blowers. We came out in the morning to a transformed Read More …
Yesterday was one of those vacation days where we did absolutely nothing, except for our usual walk somewhere unspecific. This time we headed eastward out of town towards Ibarra, at least I think it is east. My sense of direction Read More …
Giselle and I love dining out, and today was no exception. After blogging a bit online and Giselle doing IT support for work early this morning, we headed out after the garbage truck arrived for a walk about town. We Read More …
Every morning except Sunday, we are entertained by the musical garbage truck at precisely 8:00am. We can hear it about a block away, as it makes its way down the street, picking up the trash on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Read More …