Yo folks,

Our last two weeks in Canoa were great, although it feels nice to be in a new spot now. We are currently in Banos, Ecuador which is one of the coolest towns i have ever seen. It is a small city wedged between mountains, and from what we can see is very touristy especially on the weekends. Sadly the weather has been crappy, so we´ve only managed to hike, eat some local cuisine, and soak ourselves in the local hotsprings which are scolding hot. as everywhere else in Ecuador the locals are incredibly kind and love talking with us. talking with the locals is the best part of the trip so far.

The last two weeks in Canoa were much the same aside from Easter Weekend which brought in a ton of Ecuadorians for 4 days including Juan Carlos´s family. He had some classic family members who were great to talk with. Both Friday and Saturday we stayed up real late mingling.

Tomorrow we are heading toward Peru. the next time you hear from us, we should be in the Amazon with Ice Cube and J Lo hunting for an anaconda and a pygmy marmoset.

2 weeks in canoa

Sup yáll,

we have been in Canoa for 2 weeks now. the time has flown by and rumble´s sunburn is getting worse. ha ha!

classes are going fairly well. our teacher, juan carlos, runs the hotel with his wife. he is a funny dude, and a great teacher. we have been going through a book a bit, but i have mainly wanted to concentrate on speaking and listening. most of the time we tell stories. he explains stories for us in spanish clearly so its easy to understand. and we make an attempt to tell stories with our broken spanish and lack of vocab. he enjoys our humor which is nice and sometimes his wife will sit in on a class. we have two more weeks to improve, so i am hoping it goes well. food is provided and it has been a bit disappointing. its all fried and not always enough but we should be okay for a couple more weeks.

Besides class, we have been exercising on the beach, reading, chilling in hammocks and hanging out with a few other folks at the hotel. there is a family down here named the Wonseys. the father is a massive chiseled black man with a mexican wife. they are a lot fun and are actually moving down here in september with their kids.

sadly, no real stories since it is such a sleepy isolated town. juan carlos´s dad, jayme, is an awful driver. a couple days ago, he got the car stuck on the beach and we had to push him out. on top of that, he drives 60 feet to the cafeteria for meals. absolutely ridiculous.

well thats all for now. rumbles posted pics on facebook. our next destination is a town called Banos and we´ll travel there in two weeks.

adios