Hey All,
I realize I{m going to use this blog as a bit of a diary for myself as much as for you, so I will be adding bits and pieces all the time and you may have to sift a bit.
Some quick notes:
We{re in Cuenca right now which is great, Emily is recovering from a wicked hangover care of the local Ecuodorian moonshine and so I am off emailing.
We boughtt a big bottle of rum here for 1.25. It was supposedly Carribean rum but it was made in Brazil, it{s pretty terrible but you can{t really tell in a rum and coke or Cuba Libra. We{re staying at a place right now that is basically a cafe-bar, I mean we open our curtain and the people are right there. But it{s good, we{re there for happy hour and at 4 bucks each for a room of our own with a bathroom (no shower, got to walk across the cafe to the showers) you can{t complain.
My friend Brain Bergum, an avid Weather Channel watcher, tells me it{s minus 33 in Edmonton minus 46 with windchill. It}s not here. Usually between 20 to 30 in the day, little cooler in the evenings.
Emily is learning that rainforest and unmatched biodiversity also means bugs, lost of bugs.
I am learning that my sunscreen and bug repellent moisturizer is actually JUST bug repellent. That explains my red nose.
If you want a postcard send me your mailing address to fragilelimits@canada.com.
457ers what{s the story, is it Chalk Circle?
couple interesting non travel things:
From the World Social Forum (took place in India this year)...
"External debt under the regime of the IMF and the World Bank has been an efficient tool to prevent any local social economic development. While James Baker has insisted since the end of the 1980s that Argentina has to pay its debt contracted under a dictatorship, he is now asking the Club of Paris to
cancel the debt of Iraq because it was contracted under a dictatorship. Not only is the double standard unacceptable, it also shows that the system of the debt is a key for economic and political dominance. The "odious debt" question (legacy of apartheid and dictatorial regimes) is but the tip of the iceberg of the whole issue."
For more info on the World Social Forum declarations this year check the link World Social Forum to your left.
Also a cool link on a new group which is basically watch - dogging the ?war on terror? (does that really mean anything?) , trying to make sure we don{t have our civil rights completely trampled, which of course has already begun.
Just cause I{m travelling doesn{t mean I forget this stuff.
luv
C