We have a car! This time we spare the reader all the formalities involved…Happy to finally move to our house we also felt a little sad to leave our apartment and our friendly landlord Lola.[…]

OUR BEGINNINGS IN ECUADOR Every day of the past few weeks was challenging and rewarding at the same time. As planned, we found a little apartment for the first month. It is close to the city center and having our own wireless Internet makes organizing so much easier. As many things here in southern Ecuador it ALMOST always works… FIRST VISIT TO OUR HOUSE Monica, the real estate lady that helped us find our new home took us to our house the second week we were here in Cuenca. Most of our property was the way we had left it […]

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DEPARTURE Our flight leaves on September 1st, 2010! We depart from Seattle, WA in the morning and arrive in Quito at 11pm. The time difference to the west coast of the United States is only 3 hours – this will spare us from major jet lag! With only a few clothes and our toiletry bags in our suitcases, a laptop case slung over our shoulders, we try not to think of the ship, that holds our container with all our worldly belongings! ARRIVAL Getting through immigration and customs should only take a few minutes – unless they have several delayed […]

How many things are created in peoples minds on any given day? Dan and I have certainly been contributing vastly to that number during the past few years. Ideas form and are talked about – some of them are discarded and some of them stay and develop further. THE SOLAR SYSTEM Dan started his first solar system in his farmhouse in 1998. A pioneer during those days – we now know that this is probably one of our few energy sources that will not run out in the near future! He just might be a pioneer again and we think […]

The outline of a 20’ container in our garage in Evans, WA is pretty much our world right now. After months of shopping for big and small treasures to bring with us we currently spend our days disassembling and bubble wrapping our possessions, writing inventory lists as well as planning for a yard sale and scheduling our flight to Quito. The majority of the remaining time is spent on discussions on how to go about setting up our lives in Ecuador. All formalities to obtain our visa within a few weeks are taken care of – or so we think. […]