a long exhale, for i have arrived. at the destination that i have been traveling towards for bleen hours and minutes. the destination did not have an actual name until 2 days ago, when i learned that it was banos. so called for its many hot springs. i have not yet submerged myself, but already the little town shows me what it´s made of with a friendly sprinkle. a welcome shower. like the blessed sf fog that chooses to baptize me at will, in this city too, i walk through water and feel renewed.
the sprinkles have stopped but the fog rolls down the incredible green mountains, perhaps to calm the volcano just up the street. the rain seems to have refreshed banos, and as night falls people are alive, what luck i have to land in a town with nightlife. with mr. joel´s piano man playing in this internet shop i see lots of lively people walking by and wonder why they are here. for the same reasons as me? maybe some of those cats in the hostel i just checked into. but then, they were watching friends on the tube...
ahhh, i´m so happy to have made it. after a week long introduction, an easing in through the american backdoor to ecuador, after the old familiar jitters of the first solo bus ride, complete with tardy arrival, language barriers, and flying by of foreign countryside - now the water that touches volcanos reaches me >> my eyelids and earlobes and the nape of my neck, and i am electrified.
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