During the end of May and beginning of June, I spent 18 days with a dear friend sauntering through the cities, beaches, mountains, and desert of Chile. The entire holiday was an incredible experience and now I’m faced with the
The Galapagos Islands have a reputation for being fascinating and unique and for very good reason. Even though this trip was carefully organized, scheduled, and chaperoned, it still felt like an adventure in a remote part of the world that
The final two days of my trip were a bonus of the Travelzoo package. They were completely open and unscheduled and I spent a lot of my time hiking, taking the water taxi, and visiting local beaches for swimming and
The next morning, a few of us went out in search of more wildlife. We found half a dozen flamingos in a small pond and then visited the breeding center on Isabela, whose logo is quite exceptional (see below). Tortoises
After getting dressed and packing, we went back to Lelia’s for breakfast, which included blue eggs, coffee, papaya, granola, yogurt, bread, and guava marmalade; all the food came from crops and farms on Floreana. Looking back, the two meals at
The first stops in the morning were various natural formations created by magma from ancient volcanic explosions. There are two very large craters, “Los Gemelos” (“The Twins”), which are collapsed lava chambers that have since been overrun by jungle growth
Due to how the flights are scheduled, traveling from the west coast of the United States to Galapagos (or vice versa) will result in a long layover in Ecuador. I left San Francisco at the crack of dawn and flew
About a month and a half ago, as I was removing various undesirables from my diet, I was skimming over my weekly Travelzoo email when I came across the following: $1459 — Galapagos Islands 7-Night Land Package, Save $690 http://www.travelzoo.com/top20/63788138-1426683
I like lists. From Yelp bookmarks to my Netflix queue to a disorganized collection of Google Docs to handwritten notes around my apartment, I like maintaining lists of desired future experiences. I note bars and restaurants in the city I’d
Like many American boys, I collected baseball cards when I was growing up. I don’t remember exactly how it started, but my guess is that one day in the late 80s, my parents (or just my dad) came home with