macará

tonights accomidations reach an all time budget low at $2 a room. this is a photo of the hotel bathroom. notice the large plastic trash can directly below the showerhead (in the place where one usually stands to shower). i tried to move the trash can, but it is filled with a mysterious dark colored liquid. since the tiolet doesn't flush on it's own, i assume that the plastic jug is supposed to be double duty gravity flusher, and shower water collector. i've slowly been winding my way out of the ecuadorian highlands, and it's been getting hotter and hotter! also, the terrain is much drier than it was before. the climate feels similar to baja. for some reason who ever constructed the road neglected to stabalize the hillsides and i've been riding over frequent landslides. it makes me a little nervous because as i look up, it seems that the mountain could come sliding down at any moment.
i am at the border between ecuador and peru. once i am in peru, there are only three countries left, peru, chile, and argentina. so far i've gone through alaska, canada, the US, mexico, guatemala, el salvador, honduras, nicaragua, costa rica, panama, and ecuador. 9 countries in total. three countries left makes the trip seem almost over.
-jessie