Day 5, Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…A funny post office…
Galapagos Facts: "Hunted as food by pirates, whalers, and traders from the 17th through the 19th centuries, between 100,000 and 200,000 Galápagos...
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Day 4…Celebrity Xploration…The Galapagos Islands…The stunning photos continue…
The 14 passengers on this boat, plus Tom, are having a fantastic time going to the islands two or three times...
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Day 3…Celebrity Xploration…Our first night of seasickness ever, after 34 cruises…
A partial photo of a Galapagos Giant Tortoise.At about 7:50 last night, our boat took off for today's tour of Isabela Island,...
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Day 2…The Galapagos Islands…Celebrity Xploration…The staff, the ship, the food, the guests…amazing, along with the wildlife…The hard reality we’ve had to face…
Note: With this many photos today, the paragraph spacing is off and unable to be corrected. But, we thought the photos were...
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Photos from Tom’s city tour in Quito and a few from today’s journey to The Galapagos…
Note; There are too many photos and insufficient time for writing captions on all of them. Going forward, we will make every...
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Looking forward to sea level tomorrow…Tom went on the Quito city tour…I could not…
I am suffering from mild altitude sickness and am looking forward to flying to sea level tomorrow morning. My symptoms are typical;...
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We made it to Quito!…Time to adapt…
The two flights were easy and uneventful. We barely ate the meal served on the second flight from Houston to Quito. That...
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We’re off to South America today!…An unexpected surprise from an old friend…
We're packed and ready to go. We just returned from breakfast, each eating a little more to hold us until we...
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One day and counting…Packing day…Ten years ago…
It's finally here: packing day before we depart for Ecuador, South America, tomorrow. It's relatively easy to do in this small...
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Two days and counting and stuff to do…Final evening with Greg, Heather, Madighan and Miles at a fantastic Mexican restaurant…Two game day…
Yep, in two days, we are leaving the US after many collective months since last April when we left South Africa, traveled...
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