| 1999-12-23 | - arrived in Quito(1) at 9pm - went through customs - Nicole showed me around town - |
| 1999-12-24 | - walked around Quito - looked at churches - went to Christmas dinner at Nicole's host family's house - |
| 1999-12-25 | - went to mass at a relative of the host family's house - lunch at the local mall - walked in the park - watched Sexto Sentado (Sixth Sense) - got sick (not surprised) - |
| 1999-12-26 | - went to Papallacta(2) for the day to soak in the hot springs - |
| 1999-12-27 | - went to the Mitad Del Mundo(3) to stand on both sides of the equator - hired a guide to a nearby volcano(4) and saw my first Inca ruins - visited the real equator - flew to Lima at 10pm - |
| 1999-12-28 | - flew to Cusco(5) at 7am
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| 2000-01-04 | - flew to Quito at 6am - took a bus to the coast at 1pm - arrived in Atacamas(11) at 9pm |
| 2000-01-05 | - took a bus to Muisne at 10am - took a boat to the remote beach place(12) at noon - relaxed on a beach with no one and nothing within miles - |
| 2000-01-06 | - walked on the beach and swum in the ocean (got sunburn) - |
| 2000-01-07 | - laid in hammock all day (shade) - boated back to Muisne at sundown - caught night bus back to Quito at 10:30pm - |
| 2000-01-08 | - arrived in Quito at 6am - went to markets and walked around town all day - went salsa dancing at night - |
| 2000-01-09 | - flew home at 7am - |
