As a novelty, I had considered straddling the equator, you know, being North and South all at once before I visited Quito, Ecuador but I had no idea what a treat it would be to visit latitude 00.00.00…

Incidentally, there is another place called “Mitad del Mundo” down the road a ways.  It’s like the Disney of equators and visited by loads of people but is not the actual site of the line. The actual location was determined with GPS.  Sorry antiquated methods of determining geolocation, RIP.

Almost there.

OK, bad pose. I think I meant to have one foot in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemispshere.

Our tour was great.  It started with a bit of history about the local, pre-Inca indigenous people but soon turned sciencey. Our guide asked us if we knew what the coreolis effect was.

Of course, I was like, “yeah”, and…