Moon Walk

We arrived in Cuenca a two days ago after a scenic six hour bus ride through the Andes. Scenic is not a word I use often to describe a six hour bus ride, but it was spectacular. The road was literally being built as we drove upon it. Some stretches were done, others were in various stages of near-completion. We passed through a few small towns, but mostly just lots of long stretches of mountain and road.

Cuenca is beautiful. It is our favorite city so far- very clean with many churches and markets that we´ve been wandering through. We just ate lunch at a place called Raymipampa, where we both ate "humitas" (sweet corn bread served in a corn husk) for the first time and I ate my first ceviche in Ecuador (delicious, but not as good as the street vendors at the Red Hook ball Fields in Brooklyn). Tomorrow it´s off to the coast via bus to an as of yet undetermined beach town.

We heard that Walter Cronkite died and were both shocked that he had still been alive in the first place. Bootleg Michael Jackson DVDs abound and I saw a kid moon walking in the park yesterday.