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DRAWING FROM LIFE
ECUADOR The heart of the capital city of Quito is loaded with Spanish Colonial buildings and churches, providing me with endless drawing opportunities.
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uito is a beautiful and historic capital. The Spanish Colonial influence on its architecture and culture is
pronounced. In Ecuador, Columbia, Peru and Bolivia, we traversed the Andes— the longest continental mountain range in the world—in rickety school buses. The travel was dusty, bone rattling and often perilous, with precipitous heights, hair-pin turns and poorly maintained roads. The bus often stopped at a dangerous curve and the driver’s helper would jump out and supposedly deposit coins in a metal box. The boy collected the money from the passengers as a gift to the Gods to keep us safe on our journey though the mountains.