This past month has been a reminder about why the idea of opening up a hostel even occurred to us. Both of us have had our share of travelling stories as we have both travelled independently, with family or friends, winging it, or following a tightly timed schedule or staying at a resort, all of…
We finally have hot water flowing through our Calefon So halfway through September and we’ve finally got our calefon, which means hot water in the hostal!! This has been a long time coming. Getting the calefon came with a bunch of drama. I wish this was new drama, but actually it’s the same old. Crew…
So with Quilotoa behind us we decided to test out a new toy: a kids tent we picked up for the dogs! We’ve wanted to take them camping with us for a while but nights are pretty cold and we had no place for Tali and Gandalf to stay out of the wind. So we…
World Cup Fire Drill Fishing Excursion The tournament of Stop Drop and Roll is finally over! So we’ve been catching the games online, and it’s been…. hard to stay focused on anything else. It’s been exciting. Some serious craziness and unexpected excitement and disappointment. Especially watching countries like Croatia and Belgium take all the big…
The hostel building is nearly done, but we delayed proceeding because we decided to finish up the brewery so we didn’t have construction while we had guests. So this is basically construction phase 2. Slowly but surely we’re getting everything into place. It’s nice to see it however slowly. Being our own project managers We…
We’ve been here for over a year now!! It’s hard to believe it’s already been over one year since we’ve been here. Last year around this time we were finally getting our container delivered to our house. Which meant finally getting a fridge and other things we took for granted after living without them for…
Christmas involved weeks of street parades, firecrackers, and rain. On Christmas eve there was a pretty impressive towercastlethingy made entirely of flammable rope, bamboo and what we thought were strings of Christmas lights. All of it connected to various points of fireworks that was lit by a dude’s cigarette, exploding out, creating unique shapes or…