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Latin American Travelogues: Ecuador: August 18, 2006

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. Ecuador: August 18, 2006. The jungle was intense. Hot, humid, loud, buggy, beautiful! So lush, so green. The overwhelming sensation was one of being surrounded by life. A place where "all plants are rare and rare plants are common,". Most of the flowers were in the canopy, some 30-40 meters overhead. Plants with spines, plants with latex,. When roads are cut in for oil exploitation it also provides access for settle...

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Latin American Travelogues: Ecuador: August 6, 2006

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. Ecuador: August 6, 2006. Just in town (quito) for the day. Spent most of it at the botanical gardens- freaking out on blooming orchids. Gotta pack my bags for the jungle- leaving at 6´´45 tomorrow morning. Plane then bus, then canoe - - woah! I didnt realize that the amazon basin still has 75 percent of its primary forest. All i´d ever heard about was how fast it was getting cut down. Gesneraceae, melastomataceae, a...

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Latin American Travelogues: Bienvenidos

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. Below is collection of observations and thoughts inspired by the places, plants and people of latin america (2003-2010). Thanks for your interest in my ramblings about my ramblings. Are links to provide more info). Publicar un comentario en la entrada. Suscribirse a: Enviar comentarios (Atom). Hitchhiking; Ecuador '06. Aventuras en la Musica Latina. Leaving for Ecuador (January 2010). Los Cedros (Jan-Feb 2010).

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Latin American Travelogues: ECUADOR 2010

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. The following posts are from a 5 month trip in the winter/spring of 2010. They have been reordered, from beginning to end, to allow them to be be read chronologically. Publicar un comentario en la entrada. Suscribirse a: Enviar comentarios (Atom). Hitchhiking; Ecuador '06. Aventuras en la Musica Latina. Leaving for Ecuador (January 2010). Los Cedros (Jan-Feb 2010). A la Costa (Feb 2010). Cuenca to Quito (March 2010).

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Latin American Travelogues: ECUADOR 2008

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. The following posts are from a 3 month trip in the winter of 2008. They have been reordered, from beginning to end, to allow them to be be read chronologically. Publicar un comentario en la entrada. Suscribirse a: Enviar comentarios (Atom). Hitchhiking; Ecuador '06. Aventuras en la Musica Latina. Leaving for Ecuador (January 2010). Los Cedros (Jan-Feb 2010). A la Costa (Feb 2010). Cuenca to Quito (March 2010).

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Latin American Travelogues: Bosque Nublado (January 2008)

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. Bosque Nublado (January 2008). Hola a todos,. So made it back to quito after a very wet week. I guess they call it the cloud forest for a reason (and this is the rainy season to boot). On my fourth day, my hát started to mold. What a week though. Interesting that in the internet cafe they are playing the classic song by kansas:. 180;´.all we are is dust in the wind.` ´. Well at any rate. As usual the hardest part wa...

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Latin American Travelogues: Draculas in the Mist (January 2008)

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. Draculas in the Mist (January 2008). OK so what was it that took me to Los Cedros? Well, a young mycologist from the royal ontario museum in toronto took an interest in the orchid genus Dracula. Why would a mushroom systematist care about orchids? 180;´if they look like mushrooms, how can you tell that they are orchids? So queried one puzzled aquaintance.hhhhhhhmmmmm. Why would an orchid care to appear like a fungus?

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Latin American Travelogues: Carnaval (February 2008)

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. Got a little behind the ball on the email updates…….i guess being too engaged to hang out on the computer is a good thing! So i left los cedros after three weeks……. The mule ride down was much shorter, clocking in at only 3 hours! Arriving in chontal (the nearest pueblito to the reserve) I got my first taste of carnaval! The basic idea is to get people wet and dirty……. Headed out of town with my friend Rocio. It was...

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Latin American Travelogues: A la Costa; Feb 2010

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. A la Costa; Feb 2010. So neither jesse nor I could remember the last time we had had a vacation…………. After a month in the rain and mud, nothing sounded better than heading to the coast to dry out for a minute! Much of the coast of south America is under the influence of the Humbolt current. It is the most productive marine ecosystem in the world,. Accounting for approximately 18-20% of the world’s fish catch,. The o...

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Latin American Travelogues: Leaving for Ecuador! (January 2010)

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8220;One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller. So as many of you know,. I am leaving the country this Sunday (Jan 10) for 5 months of research and teaching in Ecuador. The first half of my trip I will be at Reserva Los Cedros ( http:/ reservaloscedros.org. Working on the research for my dissertation ( http:/ ethnobotanicalresearch.blogspot.com. The cloud forest we are working in gets 3x as much rain as Eugene! Thanks for your continued interest,. Los Cedros (Jan...