Quito and living with my Mom (Maruja Gomez)
This story is about my Mother (Maruja Gomez) and the great times I remember growing up with her. Quito is the capital of Ecuador, and it sits in the valley between two mountains in the Andes mountain range ranges called the Andes. Because of this, the city enjoys a relatively mild climate of 60 degrees all year round. In the early 1960s, we lived in the modern part of Quito, as my Mother was a live-in housekeeper for a wealthy family. Every few years, she would move to another job as the families she cared for transferred to another country.…