Mitad del Mundo

I took the bus to the Equator today and visited both tourist attractions.
One is accurate, the other is not.

The French primarily funded the Equator expedition several hundred years ago; however, they mis-calculated by about a quarter of a mile. (This was before GPS, of course.)



Me, lying across the (fake) Equator. (Technically my whole body is in the Southern Hemisphere.)



I'm in the Southern Hemisphere, and Steve is in the Northern Hemisphere. (This is actually pretty telling of our relationship.)



Proof that this is the real Equator: as the water is drained from the sink, there is no clockwise or counter-clockwise swirly. Pretty cool, eh? (PS- it's true: the toilets flush the other way here. I was going to post a picture, but decided you, the reader, would take my word for it.)