My 3-month stay in Cuenca, Ecuador, is quickly coming to an end, and now is a good time to talk about the things I´m going to miss and NOT miss about being here: NOT MISS – Teaching English to chicos/teens. (See my previous blog article). NOT MISS – Credit card cash advance fees of 5%, […]
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Bike B-Gone
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 […]
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 […]