http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana A lovely couple's year long rtw trip Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:51:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gina. Vilcabamba, Ecuador. Our spa day yesterday might have been the best $50 and 3 hours I´ve ever spent! We went to Madre Tierra (Mother Earth) spa in Vilcabamba, Ecuador where we had three hours of pampering. It almost satisfied all 5 senses--everything except for taste which we remedied after by ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/spa-day.html Gina. Vilcabamba, Ecuador. It´s been a while since I´ve updated this thing. We´ve been pretty busy winding down this leg of our trip. A week from today we get on a plane in Lima for San Francisco. And then we have a few days to see friends and family, apply to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/summation-post.html Gina. Banos, Ecuador. Wow! The last week has been a crazy flurry of tourist activity. I´m exhausted! But we have two more weeks of Ecuador stuff planned, so I´m going to have to suck it up and keep on going. Here´s what we´ve been up to... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/tourist-extravaganza.html Gina. Bahia, Ecuador. After our last trip to Puerto Lopez was such a disaster (see post), I had both high hopes and a little trepidation towards this second excursion. We were going back to Puerto Lopez expressly for the purpose of me going to Isla de la Plata and seeing the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/yay-for-boobies-and-whales-too.html Gina. Bahia, Ecuador. Since there had been a few days of on-and-off rain in Bahia, Clay decided that the boys didn't need to water the trees on Thursday, so instead he decided to go on what we thought was going to be a pleasant morning hike through the hills collecting seeds ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/a-hike-in-the-hills.html Gina. Bahia, Ecuador Since we've been in Bahia we've had a kitchen at our disposal and tons of wonderful fruits and vegetables. We've been trying to take turns making communal meals (everyone pitches in $10 at the beginning of the weak for group food and for the giant jugs of drinking ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/call-me-betty-crocker.html Gina. Bahia, Ecuador. This past weekend we went to Canoa, the pretty surfing beach town about 20 minutes away, so that Steve could try surfing again. We had gone right when we first got in Bahia and both of us rented surf boards and went out to give it a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/steve-surfs.html Gina. Bahia, Ecuador It's been almost two weeks since we arrived in Bahia, and I've grown really fond of this town. It's just an all-around pleasant place to be. People are friendly—saying hello and how are you as you walk down the street; the food is cheap—bananas cost $0.3 a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/life-at-planet-drum.html Gina. Bahia de Caraquez, Peru. We got to Bahia last night and are now settling into life with Planet Drum (the organization Steve´s volunteering with). So far we´ve met the other two people in the apartment and some locals who help out, Steve did a mini day of labor, and we ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/our-money-status-1-12-months-in-the-trip-and-after-peru.html Gina. Puerto Lopez, Ecuador. Yesterday was a bad day. Things started out nicely on Saturday night. We met a bunch of people at all hostel from all over the world (Spain, Holland, Switzerland, and Australia) and everyone was nice and talkative and we had fun talking about places we´ve been in ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Gina-beana/no-good-very-bad-day.html