I always imagined the galapagos as pristine microcosms that contained only sand and funny looking birds. Unbeknownst to me, a few of them are not only inhabited, they have rockin’ little tourist towns. During the cruise we had a free night in Puerto Ayora, and I was shocked and delighted to find amidst the hotels, [...]

We settled into life on the yacht pretty quickly. For eight days we followed a nice little routine. Breakfast of excessively crunchy white toast, cheese, baloney, some kind of egg (one day this was replaced with hotdogs in pink sauce), melon, and cereal with yogurt at 7am. Then we piled into the dingy and were [...]

I think I could write a book about the Galapagos. And if I stay unemployed for long enough, maybe I will. It could be so many things. Non-fiction travel tale? Or some kind of fiction perhaps? Torrid love triangles? Murder mystery? (A birder is killed on board our cruise – it would be a “Birder [...]

In all of my travels, have I ever disliked a city as much as I dislike Guayaquil? Thinkthinkthink….I didn’t much care for Andorra, but that was mostly due to my own stupidity – a story for another day. Other than that, nothing comes to mind. And I was expecting to like it. A nice lady [...]