South America Recap

Well we have been in South America for awhile now and quite a lot has happened. Briefly, we arrived in Lima, where we stayed with Joel Angulo, in Callao. After a few days, we took the bus to Quito, via Piura, Peru and Loja, Equitor. We stayed at a hostel for a few nights and began taking Spanish lessons at the Pichincha Spanish School. Recently, we moved into a house on the western edge of Quito, up on the volcano at an altitude of 3074m (10,085 ft).

A bit more about the "casa" in Quito... It is two stories, has three bedrooms, two and a half baths, a kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry and a terrace. Everything in the house is brand new, from the kitchen sink to the beds and linens. There is a bus that passes every few minutes to go into town ($0.25) and the "barrio" of Las Casas is quiet and safe. It is still hard for me to believe that we are getting all of this for only $320 per month. To see it from space, click here.