Anticipation

     One month from now the SPCL team is headed to Ecuador for our 3 month adventure! We are super excited as preparation is in full swing. Most of our accommodations are managed. Typhoid shots and mosquito netting are purchased. Mosquito clothes are packed (end of the season sale at REI). Lists are being finalized. EBooks are being selected. Just today C got hiking boots.
     This has been a long time coming. We had years of ideas. Did we want to go for a whole year? Would we have to work? How much did we want to immerse. When is the bast time for grade school kids. Then timing was decided. We did not want to have to work. Our current jobs did not allow us to go for more than 3 months. The school supported us.  Then we narrowed down our destinations. We tossed around SE Asia, Eastern Europe, Central and South America, and New Zealand. Finally fortune allowed Ecuador to leap to the front of the line.
     So we will be in Olon Ecuador, on the coast, on and off for 2 months and the rest of the time is up for grabs. Top other destinations are the capital Quito, the Amazon, The old colonial city of Cuenca, cloud forest, the largest market in the world in Otavalo, the equator, Incan ruins. The list goes on and on.

     Keep coming back here for more news as this blog will become our family blog on this adventure.