It makes me feel like Methuselah to even write that
headline. But time passes quickly, and who would ever have known that I would
be looking forward to returning 40 years after I left? (Like Moses out of Midian?)
the positive side, I still have basically the same amount of hair (although it’s gray now) and thanks to diet & exercise I’m still within 10 pounds and an inch on the waistline of what I was back then. But it remains to be seen if I can keep up with the young brothers in a basketball game- especially at 7,000 feet altitude!
I saw a blog recently that spoke of an excursion to the waters of Chachimbiro, so I thought it might be fun to post my photos from 1973 to see how it’s changed- or maybe not so much. Some things in Ecuador change so slowly that I suspect the resurrected conquistadores will still find a touch of the familiar.
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| Chanchimbiro: The gringo on the right is me in my Alabama Crimson Tide football jersey. |
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| Ibarra: My brother Joe reads comics. Yes, you rent them and read them in the store. |
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| Ibarra: Joe & I spent many happy hours in the pool hall. I think a game cost 5 sucres (about 25 cents). And they sold sandwiches and cokes too! |
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| My mother washing clothes at our house. OK- so maybe that wasn't really recreation. |
It was fun seeing how Chachimbiro looked 40 years ago. It would be interesting to see just how the whole of the Imbabura region has changed. Thanks for sharing.
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