500 Rainbows & 1000 Avocados - Notes from 9 Years in Loja Ecuador
Six years ago I wrote a guest blog for Jonathan about the surprising things I discovered in Loja . Here is a brief follow-up to share more surprises from our time in this great city. I like playing with numbers, so here a few... 500 - Living on the west side of the valley means we look out upon the eastern slope which often has some bit of mist falling in the afternoons. So we see rainbows - LOTS of them. It is very rare for an entire week to go by without at least one rainbow, and often more than that. So a conservative estimate means we've observed at least 500 rainbows in our nine year residence. 1000 - Consuming at least two avocados (aguacates) each week (and often more) reveals we've eaten at least 1000 since moving to Loja. Not just on toast, but on salads and also soups (yes, soups!). 0 - Snowstorms, although we did have one heck of a hailstorm one day - and only the one hail event in nine years. 1 - Number of mosquitos encountered each year. It's sort of a runnin...
