Well, Tuesday morning arrived a bit earlier than we probably would have hoped. We met up with our pal Washington, had a bit of breakfast and went to see our friends at the "Foundation." The Foundation is the group that oversees the Refugio as well as the projects in Santo Domingo that we are going to go see. They also helped to coordinate our well project. After a fair amount of hugging and kissing (they were glad to see me again and to meet the Vicar) we all hopped in a truck and set off for Santo Domingo.
Now, Santo Domingo is about 3 1/2 hours southwest of Quito. To get there, you climb uphill to about 14,000 feet and then shoot down to about sea level. Most of the 3 1/2 hours are spent going downhill. Quite exciting, to say the least. The road was pretty good, but what made it really fun was the fact that much of the guardrail consisted of yellow caution tape strung between a couple of tires. Past the tape, it is a couple thousand feet straight down. Yes, you read that correctly, a couple of thousand feet! VERY exciting.
Once we got there we found out that Santo Domingo is basically a jungle climate - very hot and humid. Too, Santo Domingo is a city of about 300,000 with another 150,000 undocumented illegals (mostly Columbians: read drug dealers) I would describe Santo Domingo as the wild, wild west. You get a feeling of dumpy lawlessness. It made me learn to appreciate Quito far, far more than I had in the past.
Sorry about the lack of pictures. I can't get an internet connection strong enough to get them uploaded into the blog ;-(
You'll have to come see them when we get home ;-)
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