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I have to be at the bus in half an hour, the 2nd and last to leave daily from Puyo. various keys don´t work on this computer, parenthesis for instance. New year´s eve here consisted of a lot of beer drinking with Antonio, his girlfriend Andrea, her BFF Liz and a bunch of other people, followed by dinners at 2 different family houses. then shots of sugarcane and mint Puntas, and to the salsateca for dancing, whiskey and more beer. yesterday we went to Liz´s sister´s house, 2 hours down the road in Paloma, Morona-Santiago province, where a lonely gas station is ran out of the house. ate a lot of chancho served a bunch of different ways. Liz is currently in the "one that got away" category. Perhaps that can change, she´s got about 40 days before returning home to Grancanaria, España, where tourists can see West Africans in rickety boats crossing to the new world ...