Mom Says I’m Running Away

Day: 348

In an expedition to find Middle Earth (which is rumored to be around here), Felicia and I took directions from our Spanish teacher and spent an hour and a half on two separate excessively crowded buses to get there.  Much to my dismay the lack of Hobbits was excessively noticeable, no wizards, no jewel encrusted dragon, no elves; no nothing.

All we got was a tower and a line that said “Mitad del Mundo”; The supposed middle of the earth and furthest point from the earth’s core, due to some sort of equatorial bulge.

We were rather let down by the entire thing, especially after taking photos of North fighting South and us jumping in two hemispheres at once, we found out the actually equator is an unmarked line 200 meters away.  The French astronomers, using stars, compasses and stuff, who figured it out 200 and some odd years ago missed it by 200 meters!  Quite astounding really, but since I had to pay $2 to get in and Frenchies get in free, the gushing will not commence.

Tags: Ecuador, Photography, Quito, Spanish, Travel

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