What might have been a primarily business-driven get together with a well known bamboo expert morphed into a highly enjoyable escapade in the Andes mountains an hour South of Quito. As we write this, the logs are burning in the…
Guayaquil – gathering bamboo intell
There may be many reasons to visit Guayaquil, but for us this was all about bamboo. Guayaquil is the epicenter of bamboo research for low cost housing. First and foremost, this is where Jorge Moran lives. Jorge is a most…
Day trip from Quito
The bus to Sangolqui takes 30mn and is packed full of Quito city folks going to the big indigenous Sunday market. It also is an opportunity for chatting with locals. Peta now finds herself able to have a conversation in…
Quito Ecuador, first impressions
A trip to Ecuador always seemed linked to a once in a lifetime Galapagos Islands experience. We are both animal lovers and thought this would be an obvious trip for us to take. Alas, the facts don’t bear out the…
Article just out on Ben and CO2 BAMBU
Brain Drain (Aviation Week’s magazine)Sep 3, 2009 By Jerome Greer Chandler You’re in the prime of your career, at the peak of your earning power and accustomed to traveling the world as a respected member of the elite aerospace profession.…
Journey to RAAN
I wake up at 5:45 am, told to be “sin falta” at 7 at the airport. Peta asks me to feed the un-named kitty, so dripping from the shower and barely awake, I do my best to inject some soy…
A new furry friend.. (Granada.)
Walking in the street last night, while Mango was chasing a soccer ball and Ben was chatting with some kids, I noticed some girls with a little kitten nearby. Suddenly they threw the kitten,…
A bamboo filled week
The week started with the arrival of Gib Cooper, bambusero extraordinaire, who spun through Nicaragua as part of a broader Central American bamboo tour. Gib is the kind of guy who knows his stuff (in this case bamboo), i.e. THE…