Kevin owns Sitka Salt and has a reputation for being an asshole. The first time I meet him he was involved in a community sharing of ignorant-tourist anecdotes. My best follows...

"What elevation are we at?" asks tourist gazing out across the ocean in front of us.

"Well it depends on whether it's high...

¨Poor Mans´ Galapagos¨

Puerto Lopez is the jumping off point for most travelers visiting Ecuador´s Machalilla National Park. The town itself is mostly falling down with pigs and donkeys roaming the streets and the ever-present smell of the cities succesful fishing industry. In fact, the only thing...

The rush to Mantañita from Quito was the stuff off dreams. We landed in the noisy dirty city on Wednesday night and had been ushered to a bus station early Thursday to buy tickets for the Trans Esmeraldas bus to Salinas without haste. The busses stopped running for the weekend from the mountains and...