My Travels Around The World
June 2024
Day 11: Galapagos, Part 5 – Giant Tortoises! And final thoughts on this Incredible trip
For Sunday, our final morning on the ship, we were "bags out at 6:30" with breakfast at that time as well, for a 7:30am departure. [...]
Day 10: Galapagos, Part 4 – Genovesa Island, “The Birds”
I had never heard of a caldera until we got here Saturday morning. But that's where we were: a large depression formed when a volcano [...]
Day 9: Galapagos, Part 3 – a glass bottom boat, penguins, and stars
We decided on a much slower pace for Friday, to skip some things and just relax. But we still got up when they had coffee [...]
May 2024
Day 8: Galapagos, Part 2
This is for Thursday, May 30. Our first outing started early, so we went down for coffee at 5:45am. And caught a beautiful sunrise. This [...]
Day 7: Intro to the Galapagos Islands; my first time snorkeling!
We were both up early and easily made our 6:30am "bags out" call. Breakfast was in the courtyard outside our room. We left for the [...]
Days 5 and 6: Cusco to Guayaquil – with weaving demonstrations, alpacas, and monkeys
This is being written Tuesday evening, May 28, covering the last 2 days. Monday morning, the day after Machu Picchu, I was up about 4:30am. [...]
Day 4: Machu Picchu
Sunday, May 26, was the day - the whole point of this part of the trip: Machu Picchu. I came down to the dining room [...]
Day 3, Lima to Cusco
It's Sunday morning and I'm sitting in front of a roaring fire in the hotel dining room. Today is Machu Picchu day and it's going [...]
Day 2, Lima Main Plaza, the Cathedral, and horrific traffic
I got up about 5:30am on Friday, May 24, which is sleeping in for me. I got started on the blog and Ash got up [...]
Day 1, Lima – haircuts, shopping, food, and roaming
I slept a good 7 hours Wednesday night, which is a lot for me, and helped make up for the little sleep I got on [...]
2024: Departure – Sacramento to Lima
My time off started on Tuesday, and we spent the day leisurely packing and running errands, including a last-minute trip to REI to get binoculars [...]
2024: Machu Picchu and Galapagos, Pre-Departure
It seems like it's been forever since I've blogged about traveling. Puerta Vallarta in February didn't really count for so many reasons, so it's really [...]
February 2024
2024 PVR: Friends, Fun, Food, and a little bit of Liz
It's Saturday morning, February 17. We got home last night after an easy travel day. We really enjoyed this trip and as of Thursday night [...]
2024 PVR: To blog or not to blog?
For the record, we got here on Saturday, February 10, 2024, and will leave on Friday, February 16. This is my 6th trip to Puerto [...]
September 2023
Day 5, Sep 14 – Toronto, Part 2, and Final Thoughts
It's our last day in Toronto and even though it's been less than a week, we were pretty ready to move on when we got [...]
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