{"id":5331,"date":"2011-11-18T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T22:35:45","slug":"ecuador-team-good-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/18\/ecuador-volcanoes\/ecuador-team-good-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Team Good To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 18, 2011<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5332\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ecuador-Shopping.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5331]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5332\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ecuador-Shopping.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ecuador-Shopping.jpg 2272w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ecuador-Shopping-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ecuador-Shopping-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Otavalo Market is great place to pick up some gifts. (Photo by Phil Ershler)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone arrived last night and with all luggage intact.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice.\u00c2\u00a0 Greg Vernovage, IMG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead guide on the trip, arrived a day earlier to wrap up some last minute errands.\u00c2\u00a0 Early this morning, the team met Romulo Cardenas, who is our Ecuadorian friend and partner.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, all headed to old town Quito for a tour with Romulo and then it was into the bus and head north for Otavalo.\u00c2\u00a0 Obligatory stop at the equator on the way plus a lunch stop at a very typical Ecuadorian restaurant for lunch.\u00c2\u00a0 Lunch for us here is always locro de queso (thick cheese and potato soup) and meat or cheese empanadas.\u00c2\u00a0 Tomorrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s market day in Otavalo.\u00c2\u00a0 No way we want to miss that.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 18, 2011 And they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone arrived last night and with all luggage intact.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice.\u00c2\u00a0 Greg Vernovage, IMG\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead guide on the trip, arrived a day earlier to wrap up some last minute errands.\u00c2\u00a0 Early this morning, the team met Romulo Cardenas, who is our Ecuadorian friend and partner.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, all headed to old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador-volcanoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}