Its good to be in America

Rivers in Cuenca

4 rivers run through Cuenca. Beautiful parks are built around them.

"Panama Jordan"

Roadblock

Sometimes the mountain reclaims the road and you have to wait until a path is cleared.

Rest stop

On the way out of the andes we stopped for banos y refrescas. This is the view from the rear of the small store.

Diesel

Not sure if its visible in the photo, but diesel is barely over $1. Regular gasoline is $1.48. (Govt subsidized)

GYE airport

One of the nicer airports I've been to. Free wi-fi, convenient electrical outlets, $2 for an iced coffee.

Ecuadorian BBQ

Hard to find matchlight so you improvise

Arrested development

Pronto taco

We found "mexican" food

Scenes in a Cuenca neighborhood - 1

Scenes in a Cuenca neighborhood - 2

Steep Mountain

We wholeheartedly apologize to the McCartneys. This is pretty bad.

Floating Man

Step 1: Knuckle Touch
Step 2: Exploding Hand

Couch II - the sequel

I'm telling you, its impossible to be comfortable on these.

Cuy Farm

Found it

The worlds most uncomfortable couch

Driving to Cuenca

Driving in the Andes

Still more videos to come later showing what it is like to drive up the Andes to Cuenca, but here this is a video showing an accident we happened upon. 

Crash in Andes from jason kidd on Vimeo.

Uncle Justin would love driving in Ecuador

Details and video to come...

Dinner

Lebanese food in an Ecuador food court

Suggested on branch tour

"For the benefit of the guests perhaps you could nail an iguana to a tree so we could see one" - br from canada

Roosters

Anybody know where the snooze button is on a rooster?

G'day mate

Throw another shrimp on the barbie, we are south of the equator. At least I think we are. We are 180 miles from GYE and the airplane toilet is still not flushing in either direction.

Waiting to board

About to board flight to Guayaquil

Immersion

I'm enjoying being immersed in a foreign culture where everyone speaks Spanish. I could totally see us being happy in Miami.

Drug sniffin dog yo

He let us pass safely

View from the plane

Apparently there is some sort of body of water between TX and FL

Carry on bags

I disagree with AA lady, my bag would have fit in the overhead compartment. Sure hope it ends up in Ecuador when we do.

Ready for departure

Thanks to Chad for dropping us off at DFW, we are ready to start the journey.