Bus Travels through Latin America

How I learnt the art of boketto: Gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking anything specific.

Photo by Christina Hoag

The bus wound its way down Ecuador’s Andean foothills along a forested road. I was travelling from Baños, a mountain town known for hot springs, to the coastal city of Guayaquil. My ears popped with the descending altitude then suddenly the landscape in front of me opened wide to a panoramic expanse of…