Quito, the Andean city high in the sky at 2,000 meters above sea level is not only an exciting place to be, it's full of life and full of culture! I just love this city! You can't walk a single block without seeing something unique and authentic to Andean Kichwa culture. If it's not a woman with a baby wrapped in a blanket and pinned to her back selling apples then maybe it's just someone getting their shoes shined while reading the paper.
My steemit friends, this is what I love about traveling. Where I'm from in Albany New York, life revolved around sitting in traffic, going to the mall, and getting drunk on the weekends. What is normal in one country is sometimes totally abnormal in another. After traveling and living out of a back pack for almost my entire adult life, normal really is non conceptual to me anymore. "Normal" is relative to your surroundings, culture, country, down to your specific location.
When you visit other countries and other cultures you experience life in a whole other way. You experience a new normal. If I were to walk down the street in the states selling apples like this woman in the photo; I very well may get arrested. But here, this is everyday real life; captured! Now let's have one last look at what normal is like for the people of Quito Ecuador!
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