Ecuadorothy: One Mother and Two Daughters in Ecuador

This is a true story of travel with my indelicate progeny—two daughters of vastly different temperaments. And I, a shallow person, bitter and envious of all I see, lacking in courage but with delusions of grandeur, reluctantly agree to go along. Follow the drama of our insignificant sparring, dueling squabbling, and trivial ponderings from northern Ecuador’s Otavalo markets, to the coastal city of Puerto López, to the southern Sierra’s Cuenca. No huaca (sacred rock) left unturned. (You lear...