Archive for November, 2009

Power Trip

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

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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Arrival

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

It’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. [...]