Dig in!!
The best way to see a country is to actively participate in that countries customs, culture, and passtimes. As our friend Fabian demonstrates, eating Guinea Pig was the, ahem, most filling way to experience Ecuador. Well, maybe it wasn´t. I tried some, and it wasn´t my favorite thing in the world. I like Ecuador much more than I like eating Guinea Pig. Sarah, what were your hamster´s names? I apologized to them as I bit into this bad boy.
I didn´t think it was possible, but Elena proved me wrong. Apparently, you can balance an egg on a nail on the equator. An egg. On a nail, driven into a platform, aligned with the GPS defined equator. I wasn´t buying it. In fact, I wasn´t buying any of these, ¨water spins the other direction, balancing/strength defying phenomenons¨that were circulating the hostel before we visited the mitad del mundo. But there it was. We stood on that line and eggs magically balanced. Water decided to take a left rather than a right when placed on either side. People toppled over when trying to walk along it with their eyes closed. I was physically weaker. I still chalk it up to psychology. How can three meters difference have such a huge affect on the way the water spins on an Earth so massive? Really? Just three meters and it changes? How big is the Earth? For some reason, the equator has a vaguely fishy smell…
