The No BS Guide To Santa Marianita, Ecuador

    Hi, I’m Bruno and I live in the town of Santa Marianita, in Ecuador.    In this post, I will tell you everything I know about the town.    Why should we trust you?   You can trust me because I’m not a realtor, I don’t have a travel agency, hotel or restaurant and I will not try to sell you anything in this post. There are no affiliate links. Also, you can…

"The No BS Guide To Santa Marianita, Ecuador"

The battle for my soul

We’re all fighting many battles in our lives, some with ourselves, some with others and some with the world around us. That’s why it’s so hard to judge people, because you don’t know what battles are they fighting right now. Your grumpy neighbor whom you think is just a pain in the ***; he may be fighting a battle to lose weight, another battle to save his marriage, another to grief a loved one, another…

"The battle for my soul"

About living in Ecuador with a disability

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you may remember this post, where I talked about how the hardest part of being vegan was dealing with people, both vegans and non-vegans alike, if you haven’t and you don’t feel like clicking that link, here’s a quote from it.   The difficult part of being vegan is not finding vegan food, is having to defend yourself from all the people who attack you for…

"About living in Ecuador with a disability"

If you can do it, do it. If you can’t do it, teach it.

Today I ate an arepa. Good for me, right? How is that newsworthy, you may be asking. It’s not, it’s what happened after I ate it which is somehow worth writing about. But first, some quick unrelated facts you should know to understand the situation: I live in a city in Ecuador where there are many Venezuelans who recently escaped and tried to start their some businesses here. The arepa I ate was $1 while…

"If you can do it, do it. If you can’t do it, teach it."