text and photo by MAI UEDA I was in Bogota, Colombia, last summer, feeling cold. My friend Yuko Torihara, meanwhile, was in Ecuador. She was planning on visiting the Cuyabeno Lodge in the Amazon National Park. I asked her if it was warmer there. She said that it was, so I went and joined her in Quito, Ecuador’s capital. Yuko and I took a small airplane from Quito, then a one-hour bus trip to the Amazon River, and then a two-hour motor-canoe ride through the rain forest. Our Panama hats were destroyed by the humidity, and our fingers became as wrinkled as if we’d sat in a bath for too long. But our adrenaline was pumping for our new adventure, and as we pressed on we started singing little songs we made up. Right before we arrived at the island where our hotel was located, two pink dolphins greeted…