Move over New York City… Move over Los Angeles… There is a city that would overwhelm the both of them. That city is Quito, Ecuador. We drove from Riobamba to Quito in about three and a half hours. Of course I fell asleep almost immediately, but I was awake for about 45 minutes and was able to take a picture of Cotopaxi:

Cotopaxi is the world’s highest active volcano. Ha, now I know this is a bad picture but work with me on this. If you look and see the bright white area (snow) below the clouds you are looking at about the halfway point of the volcano. The clouds hid the volcano from me. I was a little upset, but I’m over it now.

Quito lies in the Andean mountains just below another active volcano called Mount Pichincha. Being that we are still in a mountainous region of the world, we are now about 9300 feet above sea level. The altitude sickness was really starting to mess with me, but just taking it easy has made a world of difference.

Check out just one small section of Quito:

All of those little things you see are homes on the side of a mountain. This picture was taken outside of the venue for our gig, Itchimbia Park. The venue was crazy because it was mainly a mixture of glass and steel:

We didn’t have many people to come because of the rain. I hear that you can set your watch to the rain here in Quito. We still had a very fun show for the people there!

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