| May 24 2014: From Russia With Love Hairless dogs! Skinless Guinea Pigs! Incan Ruins! And Neda is coming From Russia With Love!
— in Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru
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| May 18 2014: Deepest, Darkest Peru All the scary Peruvian gangsters in Huaquillas pale in comparison to Neda running on low blood sugar...
— in Mancora, Piura, Peru
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| May 10 2014: Yoga and UFOs in Vilcabamba We're told that there are frequent UFO sitings there, and all sorts of alien encounter enthusiasts descend on the town hoping to catch a glimpse of ET, Alf, Mork or Mindy. I want to believe, too!
— in Vilcabamba, Loja, Ecuador
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| May 02 2014: Shrunken Voodoo Heads! Neda told me there was a display of shrunken heads at the museum, the result of a ritual by a native Ecuadorian tribe. That was the coolest thing I'd heard in a while!
— in Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
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| Apr 26 2014: Porn-on-the-Knob Inside, we warmed up to the 24-hours-a-day porn channel. The plastic under-bedding made crinkly noises beneath us and in the mirror above the bed, we watched ourselves slowly drift off into a fatigue-induced unconsciousness. As the rain raged on outside, I had strange dreams about riding in and out of long, dark tunnels.
— in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador
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| Apr 22 2014: Life's a Beach! Ecuador is known for so much diversity, but we're beach people at heart, and we always seem to end up drifting to the coast over and over again.
— in Canoa, Manabi, Ecuador
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| Apr 18 2014: Semana Santa in Quito The penitent pushed his way through the crowd and I reached up to help him support the cross as he brushed past us. Even with several people helping him hold up the wooden cross, I could feel the weight of it on his shoulder. It was as heavy as a telephone pole!
— in Quito, Ecuador
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| Apr 13 2014: Galapagos, The Video! It's been awhile since I exercised my video editing skills, so here's a wrap-up of our time in the Galapagos Islands. We're going to miss all the fun, sun and wildlife here!
— in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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| Apr 06 2014: Cruising the Galapagos Islands When the first explorers landed on Galapagos, they thought these marine iguanas were monsters. I tried to take an up-close video of one while snorkeling ahead of it, however as I turned around to face it, it didn't slow down or change course, but headed directly towards me. AHHHH!!!!
— in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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| Apr 01 2014: Food Poisoning, Earthquakes and Tsunamis One evening we got a knock at our door. There had just been an earthquake in Chile and they were evacuating everyone in the island to higher ground because of the threat of a tsunami. Holy crap!
— in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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| Mar 26 2014: Breaking through the Equator All this travel over this quarter of the Earth really accentuates the fact that we're crawling across a humongous ball hurtling through space.
— in Quito, Ecuador
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| Mar 22 2014: Knockin' on Ecua-Door The policeman working the checkpoint looked at my face through my visor and decided to pull us over. Oh no. Nononono. What kind of trouble are we going to get into without proper insurance? Fines? Impoundment? Would we have to bribe him?
— in Otavalo, Imbabura, Ecuador
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