[Harry Watkins]

Hello Wendy,

My wife Carol and I are planning our first exploratory trip to Ecuador this winter from Dec. 17 through Jan 4. (Possible move summer of 2019.) We will be splitting our time between Quenca, a couple of days in Quito, and then Cotacachi at Hostel La Cuadra from Dec. 29 through the afternoon of Jan 3. Other than a visit to the Otavalo Market and a brief real estate tour with Mickey Enright on Jan 2nd, we are open. We would love to meet some expat residents in Cotacachi while we are there. Do you have any suggestions about how we might arrange that? Or should we simply hang out at local “watering holes” and seek to strike up conversations?

Also as we will be there over New Years, should we expect local celebrations or events that we might enjoy?

Finally, if there was one local trip/tour that you would recommend, what might it be? We love the mountains, hike (some – Carol is slowed a bit by a manageable heart condition – but we spend time each summer between 7000 and 9000 feet in the California Sierra Nevada without problems), enjoy flowers, birds and other wildlife, enjoy indigenous culture….most anything that you would want to share with older but adventurous relatives visiting your area for the first time!

Thanks for any suggestions you might offer!

Harry and Carol Watkins
San Diego, CA.

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