It’s not quite 5pm on Tuesday, and I’m sitting in a room with no power. Of course, we all know that when I wrote, “no power,” I meant, “no electricity.” Those two phrases are nearly synonymous for we who live in the 21st century. And, sitting here for the past hour, I can understand why.
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Archive for November, 2009
Power Trip
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Arrival
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009It’s 1am, and we just arrived in our Ecuadorian drug lord’s house (okay—former drug lord’s house. He’s in a different big house now.)
It was a great feeling to walk out of Customs and, in the sea of brown faces, see three that we knew. One of the faces wasn’t too brown, as Emily is American. [...]