Lo que pase

                                           ¡Vale Vale! Happy New Year! Welcome back to Lo Que Pase. We’ve done a lot in the past couple of months which is reflected in the absurd length of Nick’s piece.  If you get sleepy and just look at the pictures, he says he’ll understand.  The rest of the Beesleys have brought you pieces related to local economics and economic issues. We hope you enjoy!  ¡Pasen bien!  Nick will bring you up to speed with all that we’ve been up to in Acclimatization Susie explores The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis  and its effects in Ecuador Sam describes how Ecuador converted its currency from sucres to dollars in Dollarization Locke figures out the dimentions and the vender locations of Cuenca’s biggest market in Mapping the Maze. And Robin shows us just how far your can stretch your money in What You Can Get For a Dol...

 Aquí estamos      Here we are. It’s been almost 5 months since we left Anchorage and 3.5 months since arriving in Cuenca. And it’s been 2 months since our first blog post. It turns out, we are not super bloggers! We hope that this next installment of “lo que pase” finds you and yours well. We will be missing family and friends over the next week as it is the season of celebrating community and giving thanks. We give thanks for our lives, our health, each other, the earth and it’s abundance, and each of you, our community, We plan to celebrate “día de acción de gracias” by cooking an Ecuador-adapted thanksgiving meal for our neighbors, who have become friends.      In our second blog posting, you will again find a contribution from each Beesley. This installment is mostly about getting out lives set up in Cuenca and weathering some of the storms that have come with adapting to life here. We each will give you a glimpse of our Ecuador lives.  Susie...

                                                                                                  ¡ Vámonos!                                                                                          Hello family, friends, and curious visitors. Welcome to “lo que pase,” the Beesley family blog!   Translated as "whatever happens," "lo que pase" captures the air of flexibility and uncer...