It’s literally been over a year since we’ve camped. So we decided that it was about time, especially since we had been in lock down in our town for over 3 months. COVID-19 was not going to keep us inside forever and our friends Erica and Alex had invited us to join them from months…
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The luxury of an en-suite shower.
We finally have hot water flowing through our Calefon So halfway through September and we’ve finally got our calefon, which means hot water in the hostal!! This has been a long time coming. Getting the calefon came with a bunch of drama. I wish this was new drama, but actually it’s the same old. Crew…
Quilotoa, a camping dream!
Kill-a-toe-ah So we finally took more than a lunch break kind of break, escape reality, and decided to make the trek south for some much needed camping at the Quilotoa caldera. cal·de·rakalˈderə,kôlˈderə,kalˈdirə noun a large volcanic crater, typically one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano. Quilotoa…
Make it tasty. All else is secondary.
World Cup Fire Drill Fishing Excursion The tournament of Stop Drop and Roll is finally over! So we’ve been catching the games online, and it’s been…. hard to stay focused on anything else. It’s been exciting. Some serious craziness and unexpected excitement and disappointment. Especially watching countries like Croatia and Belgium take all the big…
Realizations and Ambitions
The hostel building is nearly done, but we delayed proceeding because we decided to finish up the brewery so we didn’t have construction while we had guests. So this is basically construction phase 2. Slowly but surely we’re getting everything into place. It’s nice to see it however slowly. Being our own project managers We…
Sense of Purpose, and Grass
We’ve been here for over a year now!! It’s hard to believe it’s already been over one year since we’ve been here. Last year around this time we were finally getting our container delivered to our house. Which meant finally getting a fridge and other things we took for granted after living without them for…
A Flammable Holiday Season
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…