The Journey of a Friendly Giant

When everything around you is suddenly unrecognizable, different, new and sometimes strange, fear is usually the first reaction. Fear of the unknown is often inevitable; When I arrived to the City of Guayaquil in Ecuador, I was scared out of my mind for three reasons:  1.      I was by myself. My partner Lindsay, can't join me in Ecuador for a full month after my arrival.  2.      The length of this trip ( 6 months ) exceeds any trip I’ve eve  taken in my whole life. 3.      It was real now, after all of the training and preperation, it was time to dive into ecaudor and see if I will sink or swim.  To help with my jitters my nose was stuck in my book "The Alchemist". I left from Toronto airport around 3pm, stopped at Bogota Columbia, where I had a 2 hour layover. I decided to scan through a few stores in the airport and found the Spanish version of the book I was reading "El Alquimista" I took it as an op...