To travel is to open my eyes, you don’t know what to expect all you know is it’s likely to be different from what you imagine. I didn’t know how much I needed to be on the road again until I’d left. I’d been in Tena so long that by the time I left it felt like I was travelling to another country just by going to the mountains.
Michael is named after Michael Collins one of the men on the first mission to the moon, hi birthday on the day of the first moon landing. A momentous claim to fame… and one which effortlessly fits with his personality. A man of many talents , interests and ideas. His ‘project’, to convert the farmers of Perucho (his home village) to organic farming. Along the way, teaching volunteers about organic practices, improving the teaching in the primary school, setting up Quito’s first organic market, helping to put Perucho on the tourist map (La Ruta Escondida – the hidden route!), organising courses for the village, starting a library in Perucho with access (by post!) to 300,000 books, designing and making ceramics.. the list is quite frankly enviable and seemingly endless.
I’m here to spend 3 weeks with Michael and follow in his footsteps. Travel where he travels, and learn something on the way.
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