Yet another shot from the Amazon basin in Ecuador. This one features some type of butterfly/moth thing with a couple of clearly visible eye-like designs imbedded into the wing design to scare away predators. I’m not sure why this is necessary since this bug is 2-feet long. Ha! Just kidding, folks. Rather impressive shot, nonetheless.
Photo of the Day (6/8/06)
I’ve always liked grasshoppers… so very alien in form, yet so very nostalgic of the summer evenings of my youth spent capturing these long-legged freaks of nature. This particular hopper comes to us compliments of Tom’s recent trip to the Amazon basin in Ecuador. I love the bright greens and the buggy eyes. I still don’t understand, however, how people actually eat these things in certain parts of nature. Ugh.
Photo of the Day (6/2/06)
Today’s photo comes to us from Tom Taylor’s recent trip to Ecuador. While it’s not one of his more beautiful shots, it perfectly captures the essence of the brutish bus powering through the rugged muddy terrain that is so typical of this part of Zumbahua, Ecuador. Waiting in the pouring rain for the bus to come chortling up the hill so you can climb on with the other locals is pure, rough-and-dirty travel at its finest.
Photo of the Day (6/1/06)
Today’s Photo of the Day kicks off a short series of Thursday/Friday photos in which we highlight the very best photographs taken by a friend, Tom Taylor, who recently sallied forth into the mystic land of Ecuador. The above photo, taken just east of Zumbahua, is one of those wonderful shots that so eloquently captures a brief moment in a young life that we, as travelers just passing through, will never come to know.
GADLING'S TAKE FIVE: Week of March 21
Hey ho, lots of great posts this week. It’s Friday
and time to take a quick look back at the best posts of the week here on Gadling. So let’s see, what do we have?
5. Anti-Tourism: In this post, Neil alerted
us to the concept of anti-touriism, something I think we can all appreciate. Anti-tourists rebel against guided tours,
souvenir knick-knacks and anything else the smacks of consumerist travel. Music to our ears.
4. Red Corner: Hip Berlin: Then not soon before the
Ecuador piece, Neil talks a bit about hip Berlin. Berlin is one of the hotest, hippest cities in Europe right now, and
Neil tells us a bit about why that is so.
3. Family Rescued from Snowbound RV: Then
Adrienne alerted us to the story of a family that was stranded in the middle of nowhere in their RV. Surely one of the
odder stories of the week.
2. Travel Setback: Ecuadorian
Roadblocks: Well, first you have to appreciate the kind of first person reporting we get from Neil’s superb post on
his friend Tom, who is experiencing some travel trouble in Ecuador. Of course, trouble on the road is often what makes
travel such an adventure, and that seems to be the case with Neil’s friend Tom, whose efforts to move on have
been hindered by indigenous protests in the country.
1. Jamie Pierre Hucks Record for God:
Sorry, I don’t often put my own posts first when I’m the one writing the Take Five, but in this case, the
post warrants reading..or at least the story is worth checking out. Jamie Pierre, the extreme huckster…in the
literal sense…in that he “hucks” hiself off cliffs to the amusement of others…pulled off the
biggest huck in the world. Very cool. And crazy