Articles tagged with "Ecuador"
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Posted on: The Offside | 2008-07-03 05:30:10
I know it's only highlights, but after watching the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final this morning I get the feeling that South America's ...
Posted on: Two Wanderers | 2008-06-30 11:48:02
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Photo by Wil Macaulay.
We've long been talking of a trip to Ecuador, but I had serious doubts whether it would happen. But as of last Friday, we have tickets. These are probably the messiest set of tickets I've ever had to book. I was buying
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 | 2008-06-24 21:40:46
We're six rounds into World Cup qualifying for the South American CONMEBOL teams, and Brazil is in 5th place out of ten countries. If ...
Posted on: Colombia World Cup Team Blog | 2008-06-16 21:04:09
I can't deny that after the game with Peru I felt disappointed in some way, and also pissed off with Pinto. I don't get why ...
Posted on: Fútbol Profesional Colombiano | 2008-06-15 18:17:38
To the average North American and European fan, South American soccer is little more beyond what these two giants have to offer and the most ...
Posted on: Circumspencing the Globe | 2008-06-05 00:37:45
Well, I've been back home for weeks and weeks--months now. I'd meant to write a concluding blog shortly upon my return. But I didn't. I got busy. I backburnered it. Time slipped away. Finally, I write now. So, just in case anyone ever
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog | 2008-05-27 12:54:37
Final score France 2-0 Ecuador
Gomis, 59', 86'
Welcome to Laurie's half-hearted liveblog of the game. Don't expect all the action, but ...
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-05-27 11:27:15
Day: 424
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Two days ago we returned home, beat up and weary from the last three months on the road. The next morning after arriving home in the middle of the night I was sitting on the couch, when my step dad, Mike, asked me; "This seemed to be your
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-26 10:52:28
Day: 363
Cuenca to Loja - 6 hours in a over-crowded bus with small children constantly sneezing on Felicia.
Loja: - 6 hours sitting in the bus station talking with some Brit medical students, waiting for the night bus.
Loja to Puira (Northern
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-23 08:29:39
Day: 362
I am about to get on a bus to spend the next couple of days crossing Peru, so i don´t really have much time to put stuff up today, and I don´t know how many more days until I´ll update again. Soon, though, I promise.
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-22 16:21:51
Day: 361
All day we've been hearing rumors of a Good Friday, Jesus parade, but could never nail down the exact time. It supposedly started at 3pm, so we wandered our morning away, checking movie times for the evening shows after the supposed parade
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-22 14:02:37
Day: 360
After getting into Cuenca late last night we chose the first hostel we could find, which ended up putting us next to a busy all-night club; which wasn't excessively conducive with sleeping until roughly 4am. This morning first things we
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-20 15:14:49
Day: 359
Remember Argentina where it seemed every week or so I spent an entire day on a bus and my blog would hit a little lull? Well, welcome back to South America with me! It´s a huge continent and the roads suck, essentially turning to mud
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-19 07:33:42
Day: 358
I can barely breath, my lungs are burning and screaming for the thin air with the scant amount of oxygen it contains. I'm now sitting at 5000 meters (16,500feet) and wonder if it might have been a better idea to stay with Felicia at the
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-18 19:34:59
Day: 357
We didn't get up to much today. After booking a bike ride down the worlds highest active volcano for tomorrow (19,500 feet), we made our way down to the Panamerican and flagged the first bus to take us to the nearby town of Latacunga; wher
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-17 16:23:44
Day: 356
This morning we woke up to beautifully clear skies with the Volcanoes that overlook Otavalo in the background. Unfortunately we planned on moving south to the worlds largest active Volcano, Cotapaxi, which sits roughly 19,400 feet above se
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-17 07:23:09
Day: 355
(I uploaded a larger version than normal of the picture above because I think it says a lot about todays tourism, have a click)
Saturday in Otavalo is market day; and market day begins by dragging squealing hordes of piglets to the anim
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-15 10:18:21
Day: 354
We set off to wander early this morning, taking the shortcut from the hostel to the town of Otavalo, a supposed 3.8 kilometers, but since we missed the proper road (a muddy slope) we ended up taking the long way around (more like 5 kilomet
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-14 12:34:44
Day: 353
Getting up early in Quito, Felicia and I packed our bags, ate breakfast and caught a taxi to what we expected to be a insane South American bus station. Fortunately it wasn´t (other than two guys from competeing bus companies fighting f
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-13 07:55:59
Day: 352
Yesterday was our last day in Spanish school and I now know how to ask the taxi driver to use the meter (“Tiene taximetro?”) and how to do a few steps of salsa (which an hour of lessons was included with for free with our 20 hours of S
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-12 19:41:08
Day: 351
So, throughout this entire adventure of getting my visa paper work together for my Bolivian Visa I came across an interesting list on Bolivia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. The list (list III) is as follows:
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Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-11 16:23:28
Day: 350
As I mentioned yesterday, we only really have a few hours each afternoon for some proper wandering, and then it rains for most of each afternoon making it even more of a pain to get out and get photos. Today we spent most of the afternoo
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-10 17:40:59
Day: 349
Since Spanish classes (in which Felicia kicks my ass) take most our days and its too dangerous to leave the hostal at night it leaves us a short afternoon to wander town. Today we stumbled across the Theater Bolivar, which was ravaged by
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-09 17:07:42
Day: 348
In an expedition to find Middle Earth (which is rumored to be around here), Felicia and I took directions from our Spanish teacher and spent an hour and a half on two separate excessively crowded buses to get there. Much to my dismay the
Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2008-03-09 13:54:57
Day 124
The hostel here in Popayan had a pub crawl last night. A great idea and something Jordana and I would have been up for if it was not for our 5:30am bus to the Ecudorian border. A border that we hoped would be open when we arrived later in the
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-08 17:38:01
Day: 347
My alarm beeped off at 8 am this morning and I jumped out of bed with the exuberance of a child at an all you can eat ice cream buffet. The sun was streaming in our second story window overlooking the street, and the day looked spectacul
Posted on: Mom Says I'm Running Away | 2008-03-07 15:46:35
Day: 346
Somewhere over Central America I open my eyes, blinded by the bright morning sun. The Singaporean in the window seat next to me has that, ghost white-hands clenched-holding down the vomit look on her face; the look you never really want t
Posted on: Circumspencing the Globe | 2008-02-23 19:57:10
Call me narrow-minded, but I draw the line at cross-species relationships. The creature I encountered in the Amazon jungle clearly did not. Welcome to the jungle. Tena, specifically. Tena, my present location, is known as the "green heart of the A
Posted on: Circumspencing the Globe | 2008-02-22 18:54:47
What I saw outside the bus window looked disturbingly familiar: rocks and boulders and mud piled on the windy road´s edge at the base of fresh erosion scars in the mountain. The driver had to steer wide to avoid the hazards as we chugged uphill. Bu
Posted on: Circumspencing the Globe | 2008-02-19 16:18:55
A traditional Ecuadoran meal served by waiters in bowties: $3.50. A clean hotel room in the city center, with private bathroom and cable TV, breakfast included: $9.00. Being the only gringo among 49 non-English speaking strangers stuck together in a b
