I’m sitting on the Equator or so this monument thinks. When GPS first became available to civilians, I bought one and headed to the Amazon to do some exploring. I then decided to go to the place pictured to see how accurate this line really was. When I got there, I found that I was some 8-yards north of the actual 00 line. I got a cab and had the driver take me to the real Equator. When we got there—to a sidewalk just outside a brick factory—I told the driver what we had done and he freaked out and jumped out of the cab and started telling people on the street what we had accomplished. Soon we had a crowd of town folks jumping up and down yelling in Spanish, “We’re at the real Equator!!!”
