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Leslie and Sarah inside the museum, by a big boat. Taken by a woman who didn't know how to hold the camera still. - PICT0109
Boats and planes. - PICT0110
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Bagpipes! (of some sort) For Cameron. - PICT0112
Sarah with flutes! (Her legacy from the band days.) - PICT0113
I'm sure this statue signifies something deep about risk-taking or something, but to me he looked disturbingly like a memorial to suicide jumpers. - PICT0114
Sarah collapses in the Munich hostel. - PICT0115
The view from our Munich hostel. - PICT0116
In the one store in all of Northern Europe that carried Dr Pepper... - PICT0117
For some reason (I'm guessing beer), the girl we got to take this on our beer garden tour thought we would rather have just a picture of us than a picture of us AND the liter of beer in a giant barrel of a glass in front of us. (sigh) There is one exciting feature of this shot: my purse strap sunburn. - PICT0118
Gateway to old Munich--the last shot my broke-ass digital camera managed to take before dying completely. - IMG 2813
Flight the first: from Austin to Dallas at about 2pm on the fifth (duration: 35min). - IMG 2814
Flight the second: Dallas to Miami, at about 3pm (duration: 3hr 20min). - IMG 2817
No, really. This is a different flight. This one left from Miami going to Santiago, Chile at about 10pm on the fifth. On the flight dinner and breakfast were served, and we each got our own personal eye covers to sleep. (duration: 7hrs). - IMG 2818
We arrived in Santiago at about 7am (time there is the same as eastern). We got a coupon for lunch, and only had to wait through the 11hr layover. Here is your humble narrator getting a little sleep in the terminal. - IMG 2820
Sunset in Santiago, many hours of waiting later. We forgot to take a picture of our last flight from Santiago to Quito that lasted about 5 hours. The total travel time was about 34 hours. Whee. - IMG 2826
The view of Quito from Adrián´s apartment, taken the morning after we arrived. - IMG 2827
This is our hostel in the middle of Quito. It´s quite well-appointed, with hot water (in a shared bathroom), telephone (shared), access to a kitchen and laundry facilities, and two comfy beds for $5/night each. - IMG 2831
There was a big footrace (about 5000 runners) on Sunday near our hostel. We went out to watch the goings-on. - IMG 2833
We made a picnic in the foothills of the Andes with Hugo, his wife Rita, their daughter Ana, and a visiting friend Frank. It was quite beautiful. - IMG 2834
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The friendly proprietor of our hostel, Don Rueben, a retired civil engineer. - P6110007
We visited Parque Carolina, a huge park in the middle of Quito, which was quite nice, though mostly bereft of people. - P6110008
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Jeff was delighted by this sign at the Jardin mall. I'll leave the translation as an exercise for the reader.