My Family's Three Days in the Amazon Jungle

Huts in the Amazon Jungle

In the summer of 2016 my family and I went to Ecuador - an incredibly beautiful and safe country. I absolutely loved Quito and was thinking it would be a great place to live if Hillary won the election because at the time Rafael Correa was President of Ecuador. He had declared that there would be no abortion in Ecuador. As he said, "There will be no killing of Ecuadorian children." Sadly he is gone now and Ecuador is currently killing its children. But I digress.

With all the current talk about the Amazon and how wonderful it is, I thought I'd share my family's time spent in the Amazon Jungle. I'll break the suspense and say up front that my older daughter got so terribly ill that if not for modern medicine, that is, real doctors and pills and not an indigenous tribal shaman or medicine doctor shaking rattles and such, she might have died.