The Amateur Traveler goes to South America (Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru) with Sasha: erupting volcanos, visiting the equator, shrunken heads, wooing with stones, walking trees in th amazon, colonial cities, dealing with altitude, dune surfing, coping with injury, killer alpaca, the kindness of strangers, traveling with emotional baggage, Machu Picchu.
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December 5th, 2006 at 6:11 am
A nice trip report, but your guest was misled at the museum in Ecuador. It’s a myth that sinks and toilets drain in opposite directions on either side of the equator. The Coriolis Effect only operates on the large scale, affecting weather systems with hurricanes in particular, but being totally ineffective toward smaller things. There is a good explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect#Draining_bathtubs.2Ftoilets
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