Ecuadorian traffic...

... Driving in Ecuador is insane! We've been taking cabs everywhere, mostly because it's a dollar or two to get wherever we need to go and it is much safer than walking (for gringos). People pass each other all the time and ignore the yellow lines in the middle of the road.



A group of kids and i jumped in a cab to go to Mariscal..

We were in a taxi with a driver really trying to talk to us and give us advice and tell us about himself and his time in the U.S. He was 55. He was in the military stationed at New Jersey in 1982. He spent some years on the Galapagos. His missing teeth took nothing away from his smile.
A huge truck was about to cut us off, and the passenger in the truck popped out the window to let the taxi know that they needed to turn and the taxi nodded. No Boston honking or stubborn challenging.