More Traveling than Sleep

July 19th

Tena, Ecuador

You know it’s a long day when you traveled more than you slept the night before. Such was the case for today. We arose at 7:30am, a little early after our late bedtime time the night before, and packed our clothes and Bible School supplies for the next two weeks at the jungle camp Unpes. We finally pulled out of the camp around 11am and despite my driving infraction nearly two weeks ago, I drove a majority of the way to the jungle camp in Tena.

Luckily, we had people who were a little more experienced taking these roads, so we were able to avoid some of the most troublesome roads on our way. It was still a long drive. But to see the landscape change in a matter of hours was amazing.

In the Amazon Basin before sunset, we got to tour a clean Unpes camp, different from the construction project in work when we came two weeks ago. The next church groups from the U.S. were here, from Texas and Florida respectively. We enjoyed some good time together eating dinner and walking down the trail here at camp to the Rio Napo down below before calling it a day. My first time here in the jungle was such a blast and I can’t wait to see what happens this week here in the Amazon.