How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ecuador

"you hear me? I´m not afraid anymore!" - Kevin McCallister (from the movie Home Alon (RIP John Hughes and Culkins career))

several rides in the back of pickup trucks at breakneck speed
Steve jumped down a waterfall (yes, THAT steve)
navigating the dangerous territory of bus stations
partying in Quito
canopying in Mindo
thwarting malaria at every corner
high altitude making stairs climbing increasingly difficult
the smallest bathroom door in the world
chocolate fondue
the night bus (as one lonely planet reader put it: "dont go on the night buses...thats when the bad guys do their bad things")
street kids proposing to steve they shine his shoes.
steve to street kids: "no. they´re suede."

and now the biggest challenge of all. The Ecuador-Peru border.

gulp
("you guys had enough, or are you thirsty for more?")