Getting Hot!

Whew! Hot today here near the Equator. Here in Ecuador there is no Summer or Winter. And especially here on the Costa, Guayaquil in particular, there is only rainy season and dry season. Now it is dry season.

Dry season runs from April to around November. This is also the cool season. Most days are cloudy, temperature’s are in the high 70’s to low 80’s, so everything is quite nice. However, every once in a while the clouds are gone, like today, and the harsh, Equadorian sun roasts everything.

In the rainy season, it clouds up at night, and has gully-washer rains which can flood everything out. By morning it is steaming hot, with the blue skies broiling everything, and it’s best to stay indoors and make love to your air conditioner, if you are fortunate enough to own one.

Today though, it is hot but not uncomfortably so. I worked this morning. Then Lisa and I stepped out for Shwarmas at the local Lebanese café around the corner. The work and the lunch sent my eyelids drooping so I spent 30 minutes in the hammock for some blissful peace. The wind murmered through the trees as the canaries and amazons twittered and called in the mango branches above.

Yah, I can do this.

I’m still working on a travel guide and I have several projects percolating in the “we’re just waiting for the final okay” stage (Translated: we’ll wait until the worst possible time to tell you we need it in a hurry).

But one of the best traits of an independent/freelance writer is to work on what is before you. You have to worry about getting your next job but not stress over it.

I hope to have the guide finished by Friday. Then we’ll go from there.