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Curran Family Adventures

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El Porvenir, Cotopaxi, Ecuador

We hired a kind Ecuadoran named Pablo to drive us around Ecuador. He was respectful, quick to laugh and patient. He spoke very little...

The "Mariposario" in Mindo is a butterfly garden and breeding station for dozens of species of butterflies. Combine hundreds of hungry...

One of the guiding principles of our trip is to find places that are somewhat off the track and hard to get to. A few years ago while...

We are in Chile! We spent a great 2+ weeks in Ecuador and explored it deeply – Quito, Mindo Cloud Forest, Andes horse trekking,...

Thank you Dan for finding (on a lonely planet blog) a driver to take us from the airport to our hotel in Quito at 2am. Although exhausted...

Before leaving Nicaragua, we had a heavenly night at a different hotel in Granada (Hotel Granada.) It was such a fine feeling coming back...

Our stay at La Mariposa eco-lodge and Spanish school was both wonderful and wonderful to leave behind. The experience of living so simply...

Yesterday we arrived at a "low-key budget-friendly Spanish school eco-hotel animal rescue place" in a small town about an hour from...

It turns out that traveling with kids and keeping a blog up to date is a tad more challenging than expected. The daily attempt to be...

The girls are proving to be resilient and flexible travelers. On thing (perhaps) we have learned so far is that our children do not seem...