The sun shines through the white cumulus , on a cold winter day, as we board a Pan Am flight for our journey to Ecuador. As a newly appointed United States Foreign Service Officer, my Father bundles up his family of six.
Quito, a beautiful capitol, is surrounded by mountains with Cotopaxi as its highest peak. White sugar icing covers the mountain's jagged edges as winter cold settles in. The buildings of the city are colored pastel: Orange, green, blue and pink. Churches and steeples grace the town squares spiraling to the heavens. Open markets -- with fresh fruits picked by tender hands -- tortillas of corn ground and slapped into thin, small, round patties -- fill the aroma of the air.
It is a treasured adventure -- the new world before me sparkles.
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