At the Guayasamin museum on one of Quito's hillsides...
Evoking a smile at Otavalo's indigenous artisan market. Note the other two ladies are effortfully dodging the lens. Also worth note is the baby on the back of the lady on the left. 
This fruit, called "zapote" (sah-POE-tay), is best eaten with many, many napkins. You pull out the five large seeds from the middle and suck from each the stringy, mango-meets-pumpkin pulp. One of my favorites...
No more blood for oil. Tara agrees...
Advising prof Dr. Kimberly Contag, along with Margarita Davila Vazquez (niece of Cesar Davila, portrayed in the bust and immortalized in my thesis) at the U of Cuenca...
Panorama of Quito from atop its basilica. vertigooooooooo...
