Today is our first ride from one hacienda to another. All told, we will ride for six hours. We will traverse the side of the volcano Imbab...

Each day we ride, Gaspar and Tostado lead the way.  Then myself, mum, and Anna fall in line behind.  Bringing up the rear is Christian, a ch...

Otavalo market was a lesson in variety.  I saw one wizened woman crouched in a doorway, proferring a live guinea pig (they are a staple meat...

The Otavalo market is the largest in South America and it's where we ended up after about two hours of driving north of Quito on Saturda...

*cue dramatic opening music* We left Miami about half past four on Friday the 3rd and hopped across the gulf and the isthmus of Panama to ...