Llama pants, Chuck Mangione Look-alikes from Corso Parade in Ambato 2009

Once I saw pants like this man is wearing in real life. Here the pants are adornment, in a parade in Ambato, but once Flor and I were on a bus to El Oriente (the eastern Ecuadorian rainforest), and were passing through the páramo (the high, treeless area of the mountains), when a man got on the bus wearing pants like this. He had obviously been working in them. They were dirty, and were probably the pants that he wore every day. They are made of llama fur.

This singer has the country western look going for him. A lot of people were trying to get close to him. I think that's a picture of him on the door of the pickup truck.

Beautiful costumes, beautiful dancing.

This man was playing the trumpet and the saxophone. He reminded me of a young Chuck Mangione.

More happy musicians. This man also reminded me of a young Chuck Mangione. The male members of this ensemble had a similar look.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers "Feels so good".

After looking at these pictures, I had to look Chuck Mangione up on Wikipedia to see what happened to him. There was a list of his band members on the page, so I guess he must still be playing. After seeing current pictures of Chuck Mangione on the Internet, I decided to use the term "young Chuck Mangione" in this post. Chuck Mangione looks quite a bit different now than he did when he recorded "Feels so Good".