https://www.jtalbot.com/tags/rant/ Recent content in Rant on jtalbot/blog Hugo en-US Copyright 2005-2026 jtalbot - CC BY-SA 4.0 Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/arriving-in-quito/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 22:30:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/arriving-in-quito/ <p>This is going to be an interesting trip. We bought our airplane tickets just two days ago. We drove home late Monday evening after <a href="https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/the-needles/">camping in Canyonlands</a>. Wednesday around noon Brett said he found cheap tickets to Quito this week and we had 2 hours to decide if we were going. We have talked about visiting Ecuador for years. Our only choice was to say yes. So we bought tickets Wednesday afternoon to fly out at the crack of dawn Friday morning. We drove to Salt Lake Thursday after work and started planning the trip that night. We figured out a good outline of what we wanted to do and see, booked the first few hotels and activities, and went to bed sometime after midnight. About 4 hours later we were driving to the airport. I think that&rsquo;s a record turnaround for us.</p>