Ciao Mindo

I leave Mindo this afternoon. It´s been a pleasant and touching experience. I laughed, I cried. ¡Two thumbs way up! These last few days my brother came to visit us here in Mindo and present us with a horse of a different colour. On his way here he did actually see three dead horses in the road, the aftermath of a horse-drawn carrige wreck on the edge of a cliff. He came out on top and is now perfectly fine. I have now jumped off a 4o foot cliff into a narrow gorge on the teetering edge of a waterfall, gone ziplining, rafted through constant rapids during a driving rain, and at last had my final batido.

We are heading back to Quito today, where we will stay for two days, then go to the Amazon (here called the Oriente).