There is no way to go to the coast

Long time since the last post. Well, the last months have been very rainy and because of that lots of roads and highways are very bad. Sometimes I think that there is no way to keep the roads very good for long in the Ecuadorian mountains. It is part of living in the Andes: some many roads here are over canyons, next to rivers, in the base of volcanoes.

Last week the main road that joins Quito with the coast was interrupted because of a massive downpour. It was the Aloag – Santo Domingo road. Some days before the other road: Calacali – La Independencia was also damaged for the same reasons. Today (Tuesday) news announced that one of the alternative ways, going through Ibarra, was also interrupted because of the rain issues.

There are other alternative roads in the center of Ecuador that people can use for going to the coast, even when those are going to take them for longer trips.

Lot of people form Quito usually goes to the beach in these holidays. They have to look up for alternatives. And then we will see the consequences of this problem in the market, because of the exchange of products between the coast and the highlands.