Gauchapala

Day 124, Nov 3, 2013, 392km

Last night some friends of the family where I'm staying checked in and one is a musician by the name of Leo Mass, during dinner he started playing some beautiful songs with his guitar and harmonica, he explained that this was his gift to us setting around and enjoying it. I hope you can imagine how beautiful this was, just setting here in these very special surroundings with him playing. This morning at breakfast we talked because he was curios about my trip and the purpose of it all (if you have read from the beginning you will understand the rest), as it turns out Leo and his wife Letty with there two daughters are in the middle of building a self sustainable community in the middle of nowhere. They also believe that the way for mankind to survive in the future lies in these types of communities, where you can be one with the environment. And if you think what do they know, it just happens to be that Doctor Letty studied at Ma-gills in Montreal and is the General Director of the Hospital here in Puyo. We  talked about the movie Avatar and how close they were to this story and he said that they cried when Home Tree went down, we also talked about the 7 levels of spiritual enlightenment, the meaning of there Circle of Life (remember the medicine wheel), the 82 billion points of the human sensory system and a lot more things. A truly amazing couple. Letty is a native Indian of this country and has learned that healing is not just medicine but that life and our well being lies deep within our souls (spirit), she is teaching others that in order to heal a truly good Doctor will also have to learn how to listen to our spirit.

I have been invited to come back and see there work when it is done, and Leo also gave me as a token of our friendship, his songs on DVD/CD and signed it as your Bro for life Leo Mass. I'm deeply touched by there generosity and can only wish them with all my heart the very best.

 

Finca Chamanapamba.

 

Did leave a little late today and drove down the Valley of the Waterfalls or so it is known, with El Diablo being the biggest of them all. But today being a Sunday it's a ants nest with people and I had to manoeuvre around a lot of trucks, buses and cars, so I decided to continue down the E30 to the E45 in Puyo. This goes through the Amazonian Jungle area which is very beautiful but not a whole lot to see other than the trees, so I headed back towards Cuenca on the E40, this road is 99% done and is spectacular.

Of coarse getting out late made this another trip deep into the night, getting tired, cold, and hungry I finally fond a Hotel in a place called Guachapala for the night.

View on the E40