On the afternoon of the 28th we started our next set of travels by
saying goodbye to Hank and then Sam, James, and his family before my
parents drove us down to Madison. In Madison we caught the Van Galder
bus down to O'hare and arrived at the airport around 9pm to wait for our
flight, which wasn't scheduled to leave until 8 the next morning. So
after a lot of waiting, people watching, and getting pretty much no
sleep we were allowed to finally check our bags and enter the terminal
to eat breakfast and drink coffee. We then caught our plane to Miami and
had to hustle to our next plane for Quito but everything worked out
beautifully and we landed right on time in Quito, made it through
customs with no issues (even with the beard) to meet Jaxon and Caye at the arrivals gate.
They drove us to Caye's mother's house for the night and there we ate
fruit, drank wine, and talked about all kinds of different things
before retiring for the night. In the morning we awoke early, packed the
car, and started our road trip to Caye's dad's house at the Hacienda Zuleta
about two hours north of Quito. Before leaving Quito we stopped at a
local store to buy fruit and snacks and then a bakery to buy sweets and
bread.
