🇪🇨 Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Quito con OtraVeronica - 07.08.23
More patrols of Old Town Quito and the Contemporary Art Museum. This is following a day with my language exchange amiga. She’s from Ibarra, barley 5 foot, an introvert, has a hobby of speaking the English language… and completely insists on being my protector. She thinks everything is unsafe and when we first met she assured me that she would not kidnap me like other Ecuadorian women. I laughed… but she was quite serious. At least in her own world. Maybe I want to be kidnapped by the women of Ecuador...
Anywho, we went to an American movie that had Spanish subtitles at the big ass modern mall downtown. Perfect for some language practice. It was the new Indiana Jones movie… how appropriate. It was a bit too much action for my introvert friend but fun. After, she asked the policeman in the area what taxi cabs were safe for a blue-eyed boy to get home in one piece. And how sweet is that?!? She doesn’t even know that I’ll happily get in a sketchy white van with the occupants all wearing masks and waving a bag of Doritos. “Heyyy guyyy! Need a ride?”
“Ohhh, Doritos!!! Where we going new friends?”
For something a little easier on the introvert’s nervous system I brought Verónica to the Centro de Arte Contemporáno the next day. She had never been and I kid you not that her only hobby is speaking English. I speak English all the time… I totally get tired of hearing myself.
The Museo is an old military hospital - it’s a huge building and very cool. Entrance is free and it’s a total class set up. They were setting up for a special event and we had wandered into the administration offices area and the people were trying to direct us where to be. I was like… I’m an artist but I’m not part of the event. They quickly directed us to get the fk out. I laughed…
Earlier in the day I went to El Farol Book Café. And book stores are all kinds of cool vibes. I chatted up the clerk about some books and book people get next level excited talking books. My American friend whom comes from a land that is 434 feet above the sea is dealing with altitude sickness and is about to go to Cotopaxi (19,347ft), which is one of the highest active volcanos in the world. It will suck to be her for a few days. Anyways… books!💙
Today, I head off to Mitad del Mundo, The Middle of the World… it’s a monument to the location of the Equator. So… one can straddle the Northern and Southern hemisphere. Apparently, the location is not accurate but I don’t even care… it will be fun.
I had just received some astrological charts, Astro•Carto•Graphy, that are supposed to calculate the best locations in the world for me to live using my birthdate, birth-time and birth-location. Now… I later knew the doctor that signed my birth certificate and I’m not counting on that his watch was perfect or that he was capable of recording my birth time accurately. Whatever… I don’t care… it’s fun.
BTW… my locations are Hilo, Hawaii - Taos, NM and La Paz, Bolivia… believe that shit?
Tomorrow I go to the cloud forests of Mindo and take one million billion pictures and swim under a water fall. And the location of where you live… is the place you are at this very moment. So live.
