In January I bought a bike here in Cuenca. I rode it home from the bike store to my apartment, and that was the last time I ever rode that bike. In a flash it was gone … stolen … no más. I can’t say that I was not at all bothered by the theft […]
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Bike B-Gone
Medicine Men
Chiropractors are hard to come by here in Cuenca, in spite of the fact that nearly 400,000 people live here. In fact, I have heard of only one chiropractor … and she is a gringo who charges North American prices. So one day Sheri and I were on a walk and passed by a health […]
Catholics Galore
As a non-Mormon living in Salt Lake City, I must confess to being occasionally irritated with the extensive influence Mormonism has over the local community. It has a church building on practically every corner, it has a seminary building next to every public school in the State of Utah, and it has its fingers in […]
Slow the Gringo Down
I have read that if you get impatient with a Latino service provider that you could aggravate the situation, and today I experienced that very phenomenon. I was at the grocery store and found what I thought was the shortest checkout line, but after I had emptied my cart on the belt I learned that […]
Different and the Same
A visit to a different country is an excellent opportunity to get out of what you think is normal, to see how life is lived differently by other people of the world. Several times since I´ve been here in Ecuador I´ve caught myself saying things like, “Why don´t they have that here?”, or “Why do […]