Taking Off

Getting ready to leave tonight.  We leave at 2:30 am for Detroit.  I will ride with Judy, another teacher, to Detroit to meet the Fulbright Group and fly to Miami.  Everyone is excited and nervous.  Currently, the temperature in Quito is 66 degrees for a high and 48 degrees for a low in the Andes.  When we travel to the Amazon the temperature could be in the 70s but the humidity at 94%.  What a change.  I will be staying with a family in Otavalo while attending language school.  That will be the first week in Ecuador.  My family has a baby and a 6 year old girl.  We will walk to school each day from their home.  Well, I'm off to finish packing.