McMurdo Station, Antarctica a Typical Day Fall off the Map 2016-10-29 | Support this channel: patreon.com/FallofftheMapJust a day in my life at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Summer is in full swing and this place is a beehive of activity. In this video I take you along on an average day... lots of walking around in the wind, a few grumpy people that didn't want to be on camera and prevented me from recording about half my day, and a little bit of me doing my thing at work.Other relevant keywords: Greenland, antartica, 2020, summer, winter, coldest place on earth, vlogging in Antarctica, working in Antarctica, life on ice, life in Antarctica, living in the coldest place, South Pole , ice shelf, latest news. #Antarctica #Arctic #typicalday #notflat #climate #climatestrike
Too Long Gone - Reverse Culture Shock Returning to America Fall off the Map 2024-09-21 | Too long gone. My reverse culture shock experience moving back to the US after over a decade living as an expat overseas.Additional relevant search terms: fall off the map, Tacoma Wa, salmon beach, cost of living, food prices, outsiders, outsiders Tacoma#reversecultureshock #america #expat
The Flight Back - Quito Ecuador to Seattle US Fall off the Map 2024-09-14 | The flight on United Airlines from Quito Ecuador to the Seattle Tacoma Washington Airport, and all the silly adventures along the way. Also, taking the express bus from Seatac Airport to downtown Tacoma for free, bucause I got lucky. Additional relevant search terms: fall off the map, expat, reverse culture shock, flying sucks, boeing, electrical problem, carry on baggage, checked bag #flying #ecudor #airport
Road Trip Back to Quito over the Andes Mountain Fall off the Map 2024-09-13 | Driving from Tena to Quito Ecuador over the Andes mountains, making up for lost time by trying to squeeze in a few more videos before I leave Ecuador. Next time I see you guys I'll be flying to the US to start the next chapter of my life. Additional relevant search terms: fall off the map, amazon, jungle, napo, pichincha, south america, overland #ecuador #roadtrip #andesmountains
Tena Ecuador - Beautiful City in the Upper Amazon Fall off the Map 2024-09-05 | Tena Ecuador is one of my favorite cities. The food, the climate, the feeling of safety and security are all better, in my opinion, than other cities in Ecuador. This city is often overlooked by expats and tourists, but it's a place you shouldn't miss. This is a great location for those wanting to explore the surrounding jungle, cave systems, and rivers. Tena is near the mighty Rio Napo, a river that can be used for transportation all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Rio Napo joins with the Amazon River in Peru. The cost of living in Tena is low, apartments are still very cheap, and the quality of life is pretty good. If I were a new expat or digital nomad Tena would be my first choice of where to live in Ecuador. You do need to know a little Spanish to get by in this city, and there isn't a large expat community like in Cuanca, but in my opinion that's a good thing.
My Farms and Plans in Ecuador After I Leave Fall off the Map 2024-09-04 | I'm leaving Ecuador, and plan on selling two of my properties, but I am keeping my farm in the mountains outside of Quito and my farm in the Amazon. I'm not giving up on Ecuador, I'm just taking a pause. I''ll be back eventually and I hope the plans I've made will help my farms grow into good investments.
Going to the Dentist in Quito Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-09-02 | Getting a mouthful of dental work done on the cheap here in Quito Ecuador before I fly back to the US. Watch to the end if you want to see me getting cavities drilled with no novocaine. I visited the only dentist I really trust in Quito, Stephanie at Dr. Dental at the Gran Aki Molineros in north Quito.
Leaving Ecuador - Moving back to the U.S. after living as an expat for 14 years. Fall off the Map 2024-08-25 | Leaving Ecuador - Returning to the U.S.
¡Chuta! Locked myself out of the house on the farm in Ecuador. Fall off the Map 2024-08-09 | Locked myself out of the house on the farm in Ecuador. Only solution was to break into my own house.
It’s like the Oregon Trail out here in rural Ecuador. Pair of oxen used like a tractor. Fall off the Map 2024-08-09 | Neighbors are using a team of oxen like a tractor, Oregon trail style.
Yachana Foundation - Visiting a Permaculture Project in the Jungle Fall off the Map 2024-06-13 | Visiting a Permaculture Project in the Jungle, Yachana Foundation deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon on the Napo River.Yachana on Facebook: facebook.com/yachanafoundation?mibextid=LQQJ4dYachana’s web site: es.yachana.comAdditional relevant search terms: Ecuador, Rio napo, napo province, fall off the map, stingless bees, #ecuador #permaculture #yachana
Ecuador Farm Update & My Favorite Squash, Sambo (cucurbita ficifolia) Fall off the Map 2024-06-05 | The weather here on the farm in Ecuador is changing, getting cooler and rainier as El Niño ends and La Niña begins. One of my favorite, easy to grow, highly productive types of squash loves this weather. I’m talking about cucurbita ficifolia, known locally as sambo.
Paying my $2 per month water bill in rural Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-05-29 | Paying my $2 per month water bill. No online payment system here in rural Ecuador. I need to show up at the office each month, wait in line, and pay cash. Sometimes it’s 10 minute wait, sometimes it’s an hour.
Ruta Escondida ~ Ecuador Moto Vlog Fall off the Map 2024-05-29 | Ruta Escondida on a Honda Xr190L ridimg from my farm to Puellaro, Perucho, and up into the high country of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador just outside of the capital, Quito.
When it Rains it Pours, especially in the Andes Mountains Fall off the Map 2024-05-27 | When it rains, it pours in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. I had hoped to make a moto vlogging video, riding my Honda Xr190l on the ruta escondida, but with this downpour it will have to wait until tomorrow.
Update From Quito Ecuador - Last Year’s Crime Statistics - also testing a new camera Fall off the Map 2024-05-26 | Update from Quito Ecuador, discussing last year’s murder rate pushing Ecuador up to the notorious most dangerous country in South America, my opinions about whether expats should continue to move to Ecuador, and also testing out my be camera in low light and moderate wind. The awkwardly named Insta360 Ace Pro. I still need to figure out many of the settings, but it seems to do a pretty good job in low light at dusk.
Giant Passionfruit, the heartiest most prolific and beautiful of the passionfruit Fall off the Map 2024-05-21 | Giant passionfruit, passiflora quadrangularis, giant granadilla, barbadine, grenadine, giant tumbo or badea, is a species of plant in the family Passifloraceae. It produces the largest fruit of any species within the genus passiflora. This is a hearty productive, beautiful vine that thrives there on my farm in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador.
Cloud Forest on the Eastern Slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes. Fall off the Map 2024-05-04 | Cloud forest trail on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in Ecuador. This is an easily accessible trail just off the main road from Quito to Tena.
Stingless Bees in the Amazon Jungle at the Yachana Foundation Fall off the Map 2024-05-03 | These stingless bees are on of many hives of various types at the Yachana Foundation in the Amazon jungles of Ecuador. Some varieties produce an extremely valuable honey, others are kept because they pollinate specific species of plants.
Epilepsy Warning - Electrical Design Fail Fall off the Map 2024-05-01 | This hotel installed the light above the fan. The results is obnoxious and uncomfortable. I’ve stayed at this hotel in Tena Ecuador many times and their cheap rooms ($15) have been like this for years. I usually try to get one of the rooms with AC to avoid this torture, but today they were all full.
Ecuador Energy Crisis - Blackouts and Sabotage? Fall off the Map 2024-04-28 | Ecuador Energy Crisis - What’s Up With the Blackouts? Ecuador is experiencing rolling blackouts due to an energy crisis. The government is blaming it on a combination of incompetence, neglect, sabotage, and drought.Link to GM Ace’s channel: youtube.com/@GMAceM?si=VubVCpYFTMF8LBy7Link to Living Loving Abroad’s channel: youtube.com/@LivingLovingAbroad?si=JjRFl_nkFOZg4iqt
This lizard… climbing my pants. He doesn’t fit any known species in Ecuador. Fall off the Map 2024-04-28 | It looks like either a shade lizard or a skunk but doesn’t fit the habitat or description of know species. These lizards are common here, typically hiding in cool wet places protected from the equatorial sun.
Seed Exchange in Quito Ecuador - trading rare ancestral seeds in the Andes Mountains Fall off the Map 2024-04-21 | Seed Exchange, exactly what it sounds like, trading my rocoto peppers, mountain papaya, and banana passionfruit for chilean wine cocos, poroton, black corn, and many other rare seeds. This is how genetic diversity is preserved throughout our agricultural systems, people getting together to exchange rare seeds. Of course I also managed to score some sativa seeds. Next year I will bring some of my San Pedro to trade.
Chicken Coop Went Over Budget. $160 instead of $100 to provide more predator protection Fall off the Map 2024-04-20 | Revised budget for the chicken coop. After discussing it t wit. My neighbor he strongly encouraged me to add some sort of metal protection around the perimeter for the first meter to deter bad dogs.Additional search terms: fall off the map, Ecuador, Quito Ecuador, farming, finca, ruta escondida, pichincha, expats, expat, expat vlog, chickens, farming in Ecuador
Deep in the upper Amazon, the Car Bridge is out of Commission, But you can cross by foot or moto. Fall off the Map 2024-04-19 | ...
Low Cost Chicken Run & Coop Under $100 Fall off the Map 2024-04-19 | Building a chicken run and coop for under $100 here in my farm I. The Andes Mountains of Ecuador. $41 for the wood, $25 for the black nylon mesh, $2 for the staples… and the roofing material is recycled from the first roof on my house. Did I say under $100? Looks like it’s coming in under $70.
Epic tropical tree on la isla (monkey island) in Tena Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-04-18 | Nature walk on la Isla (monkey island) in the middle of the river in Tena Ecuador. Check out this epic tree.
Fabricating Tools - life on the farm in Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-04-11 | Now I know I’ve arrived, I’m actually becoming the sort of resourceful farmer I always wanted to be. It’s a simple thing, but what’s important to me is the fact that it occurred to me. I didn’t have a skinny spoon that would fit into a tiny jar of some agricultural acid powder. I needed a way to remove a precise amount. When I tried using a butter knife it was sloppy and ineffective. Then i remembered, I have a grinder. 5 minutes later the problem is solved. Grinding down the sides of the spoon was easy. Being the sort of person that realizes they can grind down the spoon… that’s what’s rare these days.
If I had 1.5 million dollars - follow up visit to the el Molino Avocado Farm Fall off the Map 2024-04-10 | The owner of Hacienda el Molino in San Jose de Minas Ecuador visited my farm to help diagnose some of the diseases attacking my trees. Marco also surprised me by asking for my help to get the word out about his beautiful avocado farm. He is hoping to sell it for 1.5 million. I may be worth that much, due to the avocado production, the contract to supply avocados to MegaMaxi, and the beautiful house, restaurant, and location on the Ruta Escondida, however there are not many people with that kind of mi ey investing in Ecuador right now. If i somehow magically had 1.5 million I’d buy it. Everything about the place is perfect. Perhaps the right person will come across this and Marco will be able to retire.
Attack on the Mexican Embassy - Ecuador Arrests ex Vice President Glass Fall off the Map 2024-04-07 | Ecuadorian police just raided the Mexican embassy to arrest former Vice president Glass, violating the Vienna Convention. This assault on the Mexican embassy is being roundly condemned and has already resulted in Mexico and Nicaragua breaking off diplomatic ties. Glass, Rafael Correa’s vice president, was a corrupt politician and a fugitive from the law. However, this was possibly the worst possible way to take him into custody. This short video about Ecuador brought to you by the fall off the map channel.
Easter Egg Hunt in Quito Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-03-31 | Both kids decided to hunt for the Easter eggs I hid this morning in our apartment in Quito Ecuador. 🇪🇨
Big projects on the Farm Today Fall off the Map 2024-03-29 | Big projects happening on the farm. Lots of earthwork building roads and paths, leveling the building site in preparation for building a bodega and motorcycle garage. I’m really happy with this equipment operator.
The Secret to Perfect Avocados - Hacienda el Molino Avocado Tour in San Jose de Minas Ecuador 🇪🇨 Fall off the Map 2024-03-26 | Avocado tour at Hacienda el Molino in the town of San Jose de Minas about one hour from Quito Ecuador. Hacienda el Molino is located here in Google maps: maps.app.goo.gl/7cCc4unykxLCwrx16?g_st=icAnd here on FB: facebook.com/share/MxoY7k6xdzKPQhXs/?mibextid=ox5AEWI learned more in my two hour tour with Marco than I have in the years I’ve spent researching and trying to grow avocados myself. Marco is an avocado genius and has built something truly amazing here in the mountains of Ecuador. Watch all the way through for his discovery of how to organically tread avocado trees to grow perfect avocados.Additional relevant search terms: how to grow avocados, perfect avocado, secret organic treatment for healthy avocados, organic avocados, Quito Ecuador, Andes mountains, fall off the map, aguacates, aguacate, finca, cómo cultivar aguacates perfectos, English, Spanish, Spanglish
The Best Avocados - Neighbor’s land for Sale in Ecuador’s Avocado Country. Fall off the Map 2024-03-21 | The neighbors tried to give me a bag of corn (I insisted on paying) and successfully gave me a bag of avocados, but not before making their pitch to sell me their land. They n my opinion, land in this area is a great investment both for avocado production and for retirement because of its perfect year round spring like climate, and because it’s less than an hour from the international airport and 1 hour from the capital of Ecuador, Quito. Most expats retiring in Ecuador cluster into the Cuenca expat bubble, but for those that are a little more adventurous there are huge opportunities one hour outside of Quito in the Ruta Escondida area. I am not a real estate agent, I have no dog in this race. I simply enjoy looking at and sharing information about real estate here and I am motivated to build a stronger expat community. I have great neighbors and would love to help this community become more diverse and successful.
Yellow Ladybug in the Park in Quito Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-03-10 | Unusual ladybug landed on me and explored while I waited in a park in Quito. I’ve never seen a yellow ladybug before.
Prices in Ecuador, a cost of living video Fall off the Map 2024-03-01 | GM Ace’s detailed video on the topic: youtu.be/l01W_R96Qko?si=8s4bE6nM1kxovePA My cost of living in ecuador video is long overdue. There are more complete videos out there that cover items I didn't, but if youre looking for a quick overview of real prices I hope this will help. As always the Fall off the Map channel is here to offer an honest take on my travel experiences. I'm not sponsored by anyone I'm not selling anything. I offer my opinions and experiences and nothing more.
Expat vs Immigrant vs Migrant vs Digital Nomad - a Gringo’s Opinion. Fall off the Map 2024-02-19 | Expat, immigrant, migrant, digital nomad... What do these terms mean, are they real, are they legitimate? Is an expat just a pretentious immigrant? These are the questions I hope to answer today on the fall off the map channel.This video was re-uploaded due to a file error. Somehow many of you watched the unlisted version where the video stopped working. Sorry. Sometimes technology sucks. Hopefully it works better this time and I don’t get a wave of disgruntled fall off the map viewers unsubscribing.
Mompiche Ecuador During the Crisis - Esmeraldas Province is Considered the Most Dangerous Area Fall off the Map 2024-02-17 | We ignored all the travel warnings and drove to Mompiche in the Esmersaldes province on the NW coast of Ecuador. Our experience was safe and contradicts most of the international travel warnings. This is what we do at the fall off the map travel channel. I... we... go places that you might not want to in order to show you the world.
Ecuador 4 Weeks into the Crisis, Update and Anaysis - Similarities to Mexico Fall off the Map 2024-02-05 | Four weeks into this conflict in Ecuador between the narco terrorists and the government, here’s my thoughts and analysis on what’s happening in Ecuador. 🇪🇨 The cartels and gangs in Ecuador will reorganize and respond with tactics similar to what they used in Mexico because those tactics were effective. They were unprepared for the strong response from the Noboa government and the first weeks of this war were devastating for them. I believe we are about to see a renewed wave of violence as the cartels attempt to undermine confidence in the Noboa government. Elections are 14 months out. The cartels will intentionally create chaos and take actions to terrify the public in the hopes that they can help elect a naro-friendly cartel sponsored president. Whether their terror tactics work or not depends on funding. The Ecuadorian government desperately needs help from their partners in this war with the cartels.
Early Morning Tilapia Therapy- Watching the Fish and Listening to the Birds on the Farm in Ecuador Fall off the Map 2024-02-03 | Watching the fish do their thing this morning. The tilapia pond is still a work in progress. It’s been a dry year in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador so the pond is taking forever to fill using rainwater.
Toasting corn before I feed it to my tilapia Fall off the Map 2024-02-01 | My neighbor gave me some of his “extra” corn. I’m toasting it to crack it open and make it easier for my tilapia to eat it. Any time I can feed my tilapia for free is a win!
How to Rent in Ecuador Like a Pro Fall off the Map 2024-01-29 | How to rent in Ecuador whether it be short term or long term. What to expect and how to navigate this rental market like a local.
Why Ecuador Part 2 - Culture and Kindness Fall off the Map 2024-01-24 | Why Ecuador? I mentioned a few reasons in the first video in this series, such as cost of living, land ownership, and the beauty of the country. In this video I talk about community and the kind generous nature of the people. I also accidentally ramble on about real estate.
Why Ecuador? $300 per month cost of living? Fall off the Map 2024-01-23 | People often ask me why, why do I live in Ecuador and with the current crisis why I remain in Ecuador? I try to explain the reasons in this video as I show you a little more of my farm, my life, and explain my cost of living here on the farm in rural Ecuador just a short drive from the international airport, the capital, Quito, and all the services such as healthcare and shopping you could want;
