September 11, 2010

Time´s Up Already ¨´imagine question mark here because I can´t find one on this keyboard´´

We are back in Quito.  I am itching to run down the street & go find the horses again.  The riding was beyond incredible.  There are many pictures tucked into my camera & we will also get a DVD of photos from the outfitter that she & a professional photographer took while we rode.  So, I will warn you now -- many posts of stories &pictures are to come as I drag entertain you with the trip. 

But none of the pictures will be able to truly capture the magnitude & scale of the neverending rows of hazy volcanos & wide high plains watched by hawks and condors.  I think I pulled a muscle in my neck trying to look at everything at once. 

And the horses....amazing.  Name a horse you know that can trek all day & canter along ridges at 4,200 meters above sea level (about 13,800 feet).  Whenever I tried to walk up a hill, I was about to collapse after five steps, even after a week of acclimatization.

So, back to Miami in the morning, then home to NC tomorrow.  I am sad to go, but twitching to see Solo.  Who will feel like a giant after these tough South American ponies.  Once I am back, I can begin the laborious process of sorting 600 pictures & uploading!  Till then, go hug a horse & enjoy the ride!

9 comments:

  1. Make sure ya wave at me while you're in Miami! Lol. Glad to hear you had such a great time. :-D

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  2. In addition to uploading some photos to this blog, could you please have a large folder of photos on one of the photo sharing web sites? One that doesn't require that people sign up to view photos. Your trip sounds so amazing, that I could easily look at a few hundred photos in a slide show.

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  3. Frizz, I will wave for sure! I have a three hour layover, complete with a joyous trip through customs. Where they will probably strip search me or something because, horrors, I dared to go beyond our sacred borders, LOL!

    Kipp, I am pondering several uploading strategies, but rest assured, they will require no sign ups!

    lh, you are invited to a photo viewing party. Hint, hint, there may be a REALLY cool prize in it for you.

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  4. Sounds fabulous! (your trip...not the strip search). Looking forward to the pictures (of your trip, not the strip search). ;-)

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  5. Solo, don't even joke about that! They made me take my pants off once at MIA. Yep. True story! Because I totally look like a terrorist, ya know.
    I'm hoping you were not subjected to such humiliation! Oh, and my apologies for our airport being so ugly and yicky. :-P

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  6. Haha, Frizz -- I actually thought the Miami airport had some nice touches, but it was too huge! No strip search although they did take away my very deadly (tiny) fingernail clippers. WTF?

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  7. At DIA one time, they made my 79 year old, handicapped father unbuckle and unzip his pants infront of everyone going through security. He had a colostomy bag and they said, "We need to know what's in here." Uh...what do you think is in a colostomy bag?!!!

    Glad you only had to give up your fingernail clippers and not your dignity.

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  8. Ohhh, OUAE, that's awful! I met a doctor once who had to be paraded naked through the airport because the metal detector kept going off!

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