Christmas involved weeks of street parades, firecrackers, and rain. On Christmas eve there was a pretty impressive towercastlethingy made entirely of flammable rope, bamboo and what we thought were strings of Christmas lights. All of it connected to various points of fireworks that was lit by a dude’s cigarette, exploding out, creating unique shapes or…
Category: Hostel
Hoppy Alpaca Hostel
Nearly there…
Construction is over, but not really The majority of the main building is done as well as the basement. Now we just have to get the stairs, windows, doors and glass in and the structure is complete. We’ve added a higher wall separating our property from next door. The stairs to the second floor are…
Swallow Your Soul
So one of our neighbours had a small brown dog, a tiny little thing who’s got some issues. We first named her “swallowyoursoul” ala Deadites from the Evil Dead movies because she’d go absolutely haywire barking with her teeth bared and a dangerously unhinged look in her eyes if you went within 10 feet of…
The Roof…The Roof…The Roof is Going Up!!!
Gandalf has officially made herself at home, even took her for a bath at the vet and got her shots. It took a while to completely adopt her, since we weren’t sure if she had an owner. Everyone seems to know her but no one owned up to being her people. So after asking around,…
10 Cups of Rice, Yes, 10
*So this is a draft a few weeks late, as you’ve read in previous posts we’ve had a lot on our plates and finally getting around to posting. We’ve made some corrections here and there but read most of this in past tense, we aren’t going to fix every little grammatically incorrect moment. :p Also…
Progress Progress Progress
It’s been feeling like we’ve had a cloud over us for some time now but as we’ve learned to take that big deep breath, we’ve now been seeing changes. Good, positive changes. Not every step forward is followed by a step back. It helps that Tali, Max, Athena, and Jup are always ready to cuddle…
Surrender and Acceptance
It’s been more than two years since we dreamed about moving down to Ecuador to start a hostel brewery! It’s been a funky, long, and tiring trip and we still have a long way to go. But only recently this year have we started to feel more at ease. Sometimes we have to surrender and…
Welcome Tali!
So it’s almost two weeks since we got Tali! We’ve been wanting a dog since we got down here, but we were thinking it would be too bold to get a puppy before construction. So it was a little unexpected but not totally surprising when Malena called Thursday evening excited saying “I almost adopted a dog!”…
“Miercoledi”
So we’re tackling “Operación Roger Aprende Español”. Every morning, with Malena’s guidance (and copious coffee) we tackle a page from a dictionary (it has pictures!!) that is split into topical sections. So far covered the calendar, numbers, and dates. Roger is incredibly confused. Intestinal Fortitude We got munchy at the mercado while picking up some…
Familiar Smells
Carnaval So we walked into a warzone. Willingly. Cascada Peguche near Otavalo is a beautiful place, with a beautiful waterfall feeding a speedy little river. When we were in Quito last week the staff at the hostel said “don’t go to Peguche for Carnaval, it’s brutal, people are savages, don’t go!”. So needless to say…