by Zachary Houtenville | Apr 27, 2025 | Travel Tales
Staring at the summit of Volcan Cotopaxi at at about 5,100 meters. Part 1: Robbed It was a cold, groggy morning in Quito. The kind of start where you’re not fully awake, but the plan is already in motion. Ours? Get the hell out of the city as fast as possible and try...
by Zachary Houtenville | Apr 24, 2025 | TREK TALKS
View of Quito from Secret Garden Hostel. Ecuador is a country blessed with some of the most breathtaking landscapes I’ve ever encountered. As soon as you cross the border from Colombia, you’re immediately met with a stunning array of mountain ranges and towering...
by Zachary Houtenville | Nov 22, 2024 | THE PLAN
Clarification: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil This is it. A bit of a road map of what I’ll be doing over the next 4 months… ideally. The truth is who really knows. When I went to Thailand, there was no...
