Dinner Table PDX

One way or another we've ended up far away from most of the people we love. Blame it on the weather, the housing market, and the wanderlust that seems to course through our family's veins. This blog is a way to share some of the tiny fragments that make up our everyday life.

Like sitting at the dinner table. Check in from time to time.

Miguelito

PS. PDX is a local way of writing Portland

Ecuador - Chapter 2

Our old Quito exploration continued with a rather mediocre meal at a small, subterranean bistro where I experienced the world's smallest bathroom. When seated on the toilet one's head is essentially in the urinal. Yummy!

Following this bit of compression we headed up to the Panecillo (aka "little bread loaf" and seen below from Plaza San Francisco) where the 90' statue of the Virgin of Quito perches over the city. Aurelia and I paid the $1 to walk up the inside of the statue, made from cast aluminum to a look out midway up.

The city is even larger than I remember it being, spreading up the sides of the valley. Quito is supposed to have 1.8 million inhabitants but I expect that's a bit of an undercount. The sun was incredibly strong the first few days making for some squinty pictures.


More to come...Otavalo.