Spiritual Moment
The worst thing about the track in Otavalo is the breath-taking altitude (literally). But the best thing about it is the 360 degree mountain landscape . Looking out from any point on this track, you feel like you’re in an impressionist painting. Some of the mountains in the distance are dusted with snow, others (the volcanic ones) have clouds of smoke hovering around their peaks.
After running, I sometimes like to lay down on the grass, my chest facing the sky, and just stare at the moving clouds. Otavalo has nearly zero humidity, and an average day is about 70 degrees, where the sun just peaks through the white puffs scattered throughout the blue. Soaking in the feeling of dry grass pricking the back of my neck and my forearms, palms up and open, I am reminded for one fleeting instant that sometimes the world makes sense.
