Saturday, October 13, 2012

Sept-Oct ramblings....

El Recreo 10k....Maria made it into the top 3, instead of just the top female in the masters catagory.
Beside Ecuador's top female runner....Diana Landy
Famous kids
Smile dad....it won't hurt that much....ya right...I just turned 50
Carla's latest hair design
just hangin' at home
Chef Laura Lee's famous apple cobbler.....only lasted 2 days
with gramita
help grandma maruja
scrambling on Pinchincha
with papi mon
when i grow up....
Cyclists who stayed with us last year photographed an entry in the cyclists log at the Casa de ciclistas in Trujillo Peru.  Back in 99.....don't we look young!  Lucho the owner, Maria, Volker and Steve.  When we biked from Pasto Colombia to Arica Chile
Hiking above Quito....note the airport in the background....due to be closed in a 1/2 and turned into a park
cruising the Chaquinan
biking with Javier to Antisana base camp at about 4500m
Parque La Armenia.....about 10k from home

September fires



The view out the front door a few days earlier....looks like Kamloops! Normally the grass and the other side of the canyon is all green! on
Note the helicopter above....

Wild fires infront of our place in mid september

An extremely dry summer.  This one jumped the river below and came within 200m of our house.  We were saved by the fact that a municipal plant nursery is right in front of us and they have water tankers that they dispatch throughout the city.  The firemen were on the other side.

Carla stands up for herself