So last weekend known as the Dry Weekend, was pretty much dead everywhere including the nightlife, which we kind of expected but was hard to learn first hand. We decided to go out of town for a day anyways to tour Ibarra’s Yahuarchocha lagoon with a backpack full of booze but it turns out that…
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Hoppy Alpaca Hostel
More Panic More Paperwork
Our agent had some happy news for us around Valentine’s Day, our container arrived in port a week early! And with that, more paperwork on short notice. Thankfully another long trip to Quito wasn’t necessary as we could get the papers we needed from offices in Ibarra and Otavalo, sooooo much closer. Fingers crossed, the…
Death by 1000 paper cuts
We’ve spent most of this week doing what feels like the most painful process of this whole move. Getting our documentation sorted out! It only took two trips into Quito, (pre-sunrise, 6am, 3 hour bus ride from Cotacachi) multiple cab rides to multiple offices and waiting in long lines, one instance where there were 131…
Week 1: Late arrivals and not so happy cat reunion.
We’ve been here a week! Wahoo! We were supposed to be here two weeks ago, but due to a lost passport mishap which we only realized the night before, we had to cancel our flights, make a few trips to the consulate and finally rebook one week later. Our Flight: Travelling with two cats turned out…