30 January 2018– I worked on my blog all day today. I took two
breaks; one of them was to go looking for apples and Snickers candy bars. I
found the apples but not the candy bars. When I bought the apples, the guy I
paid told me I should marry his daughter. She was about 18 years old, maybe. I
wrote on my cell translator that she doesn’t want on old man for a husband.
Both the mother and the father said that doesn’t make any difference. I wrote
back that she would much prefer a nice young man over me and left to end that
conversation.
The second break I took was at 6:00 p.m. to go eat a hamburger
and French fries. It wasn’t bad. The lady making the hamburger was pretty
chilly though. I ate my hamburger and left. I stop into another store to buy
some water for tomorrow, and low and behold they sold Snickers candy bars. I
bought four of them to have one for tonight and three for tomorrow if easy food
wasn’t available.
Today was the first day I saw blue sky in weeks. For the most
part since I arrived in Bogota, Columbia the skies have been mostly cloudy.
Once I saw a night sky with stars. Tomorrow I got to get my motorcycle out of
secure parking about a block away from the hotel. I hope that’s not going to be
another adventure I have to deal with.
I found out how people know how to put their trash out for
collection. The trash truck comes slowly driving down the street playing a
certain song on a loud speaker. That alerts the people that it’s trash day. So,
they dash into their homes / businesses, grab their garbage and set it on the
curb for the trash collectors. That’s what I observed while I was eating my
hamburger. I programmed Blanche to navigate me out of here and into Quito. I
also typed in the GPS Coordinates of the hotel I’m planning on staying in. I
tracked Blanche’s movement against Google Maps. She was right on locating with
Google Maps. I think Blanche will be ok for the rest of Ecuador. I’m going to
try and rise early tomorrow. I want to stop at the Equator and also get to the
hotel before the sun goes down. Well that’s my plan anyway. DaveR out
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