Twenty-Four Days

The first and most disheartening piece of news: the kitten is gone. Ella se fue. No se porque. Big bummer. Hypothesis 1 is that she climbed up the curtain (or really, any of the random fixtures on these walls) and escaped out of the window. There is no hypothesis 2. Just 1. I will attach a picture of her to this blog as a tribute to kitties who climb everywhere.

Next on the list of things to report, I'm about 90% sure that I'll be heading to an organic tea farm in the jungle near the city of Puyo. For at least a week, I'll be doing whatever needs to be done on this farm in exchange for free housing. I wasn't sure what I'd be doing during my last month in Ecuador, but this feels like a step in the right direction. There's a part of me that wants this month to fly by so I can be home and get on with my life, then there's another part that doesn't know how to say goodbye. To quote Will Ferrell post tranquilizer dart in the jugular in that memorable Old School moment "You're crazy, you're crazy man. You're crazy... I like you but you're crazy!"

Well, I'm off to grab some food, make some phone calls and enjoy this last day in July!