Haloed Beings on Hills

I haven’t been to many European cities: only Paris and Chartre… and Bombay and Calcutta if we get technical, so I don’t have a great foundation to plant this opinion in, but Quito is totally Europe. I’d say southern Europe. From my extensive travels there, yup. It’s the churches… everywhere. Like Starbucks.

This scene is a panorama of the wide-open, plain-like non-skyline of Quito, Ecuador, from the old, Gothic Basilica del Voto Nacional. Ok, the basilica’s actually younger than me – it was consecrated in 1988, in an unfinished state. In fact, it’s still unfinished, what with end-of-the-world-if-the-basilica-were-to-be-completed scenarios floating around. But it looks f’n authentic for being a young pup of a cathedral.

If you zoom into the top of the hill at the center of the panorama, you’ll see the angel that watches over this side of Quito. The other side can go to Hell, I guess.

--The Journagraphist

P.S. This was the Spring Break 2009 trip

Ohhh… were you waiting for me?

So it’s a year and a half since my last post… as you can see achieving my lofty blogging goals got lost somewhere between the open sewers of Dhaka and the open abdomen of my lovely anatomy cadaver in med school anatomy. No matter, since my loyal following consists of exactly no one, plus the charming troll that decided my play on words for the title made me “dumb”, I will pick up where I left off. Here are the new rules: I blog when I can – which will probably be sporadic, I will post pictures and stories of my travels the past year and half, retrospectively, as they occur to me – thus adhering to the original intent of this blog.

So here’s to new beginnings!

--The Journagraphist