Not much to see or do in the town of Coca really but I always tried to find something neat or special. Its a hard city to live in, so hot with cement everywhere and the three rivers that surround the small town make it feel as if you opened two pots with boiling water next to your bed. Coca feels like Purgatory but with Hell´s weather. I had to endure the extreme heat and humidity and never got a chance to do a trip to the Rainforest. Coca has a special place in my heart, I worked there back in 2012-2013 for the Ministry of Public Health. Like the Energizer bunny it keeps going and going and going. On the way to Coca by car you can catch a glimpse of the Rainforest Horizon: I dont even want to comment on that right now so. (EL MOTILON) After lunch we kept on truckin and made it to Coca in time to watch Ecuador lose 3-0 against Brasil in the Worldcup Qualifiers. It was really good and the price was nice $3.50 per meal which included soup, main dish and a small dessert. We stopped in Baeza for lunch and found a nice restaurant that served business lunches. It was an easy drive, it was mostly dry all the way there just a little rain post Baeza (but it always rains there) and we made it to Coca from Quito in my car in about 6 hours. I took two days off of work and requested to go for a 3 day 2 night tour to this lodge located about 1 hour on a speedboat from the Coca docks. So I made arrangements with a family friendly lodge called: YARINA LODGE. I though about this for a while and came to a decision that my kid was old enough and mature enough to visit the Amazon Rainforest. So I began thinking what to do for our vacation time. I mean I work for a travel agency for crying out loud! That really hit me and I made it my mission to take my kid on a cool trip. "When are you going to take your vacation time this year, since I want to spend some of my vacation with you." So when July was coming to a close my kid (who is 6 yrs old) asked me before falling asleep: Those trips to the Amazon are still some of my best memories to date. I recall I used to always look forward to summer so I could make my way to the Jungle. But, I also took part in summer camps in a country club called Jacaranda and with a church group to the Amazon Rainforest. This could be the Beach, Cuenca, Loja, or to the US of A. When summer arrived we did at least one BIG trip with my folks. I recall my summers back when I was a kid, spending countless days with my neighborhood buddies exploring the entire Cumbaya Valley in the suburbs of Quito.
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