Walt Amses: Surfing the Andes

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
I was convinced I was the only sane one on the bus, including the driver. We were on a seven-hour trip through the Central Andes headed for Cuenca Ecuador as it slowly dawned on me that the entire route included no straight flat sections of road and produced the kind of G forces common in alpine ski racing or NASA training. Everyone else seemed strangely calm in a Stepford Wives sort of way while I was as agitat