Tortoises
It turns out we have way too many favorite photos from the Galapagos so far, so my next several posts will be a bit unconventional. Instead of telling you what we’ve done day by day, I am going to post some pics animal by animal. I’ll start with a general overview of our cruise in … Continue reading
Origin of the Species
Guayaquil turns out to be a pretty awesome city, though a bit large for our tastes. It has several fancy and modern malls, a few of which might even rival the Scottsdale malls. Mike and I frequented the Mall del Sur because it is close to the house where we were staying, it is where … Continue reading
La Nariz del Diablo
La Nariz del DiabloA Play in 3 Acts The Players: Jackie — a tourist in Ecuador Mike — her traveling companion The Narrator — or just some train conductor guy that Mike took a photo of Act I: Hotel Europa [The scene: a small but clean hotel room (well, clean except for the one rather … Continue reading
Market Day
Well Mike finally got a chance to upload some more pictures, so I’ll fill you in on the wacky and wonderful Guamote market. I think it truly was one of my favorite experiences thus far. As usual the locals woke us up at the butt crack of dawn, though we opted to put in ear … Continue reading
Lonely Planet Sucks!
Well, our plan to bike all the way up the Andes failed, but not for the reason many of you might suspect. My thighs were handling the ascent quite well; in fact, on our first day we made it up to about 6000 feet (around 3000 up from where we started). We made it a … Continue reading
From the Andes to the Amazon
It turns out that our ride from Baños down into the Amazon river basin was not as white-knuckle a ride as the one into Baños. We dropped another couple thousand feet in elevation, but the road was graded nicely. It was also a very scenic route. We started off twisting through mountain roads at the … Continue reading
Laffy Taffy
You wouldn’t think that bitching about the weather would have any impact whatsoever on Mother Nature(or at least not a positive one), but since I wrote my last post (about the cold and the rain and the hail) we’ve had a couple of gorgeous days. It has been nice and sunny…. We’ve been hanging out … Continue reading
Andes Mints!
Okay, so we haven’t had any mints here yet, but the Andes mountains are just as good if not better. The views of snow-capped peaks are amazing. Mostly we’ve been biking around between 9000 and 11500 feet so far. We plan to head south through the mountains for a week or so before taking a … Continue reading
At Altitude
Well, Mike and I have set foot in South America — a first time on this continent and south of the equator for both of us. We had a long, kind of tiring journey from Phoenix to L.A. to Panama City to Quito, but we’re here! Of course, once we got here it took us … Continue reading
Stateside
Once again, Mike and I are stateside, having left Costa Rica on Wednesday. We may be back in familiar territory, but that doesn’t mean we’ve paused our adventures. We have a very busy couple of weeks planned for this travel abroad intermission. I’m getting ahead of myself though, because I still have to catch you … Continue reading
Traveling Applejax 