Category: Ecuador 2008

After a week in the Galapagos with no luggage, we were pretty sunburned (except for Anna) and ready for more underwear choices. We left Isabela for an overnight in Santa Cruz where we hit the tourist shops and watched iguanas lounging by a hotel pool. The grasshoppers in Santa Cruz are mighty robust-looking and liked…

The circuit board in our apartment is busted so our thermostat and heater are having communication problems. Which is why I am blogging at my kitchen table wearing my winter coat, scarf, and hat. Bitter cold days in New Jersey would inspire anyone to reminisce about warmer times. Today is a gray, almost sunless sky…

The island of Isabela is as pretty as it sounds. Shaped like a seahorse, Isabela is the largest of the Galapagos archipelago. Across its 4,558 square kilometers lies six sleeping volcanoes. Much of this island is rough and cracked, but at the southeast end below the gaze of the Sierra Negra volcano rests a smalltown…

I’ve been back in the Northern Hemisphere for almost 24 hours now. Yesterday began with a ride over sleepy clouds circling the Andes and then ended with a heated cab ride under the stars and over the Hudson. Our time in Quito and Las Islas Galapagos was hard to say goodbye to. There’s a snow…