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
Back in January, on the same day that I gave my notice to my manager, a Meetup email appeared in my inbox with details on a photography workshop weekend in Yosemite. Being in the say-yes-to-life mood, I immediately RSVP’ed, paid
Completely unrelated to the fact that I’ve called San Francisco my home for several years now, I’ve been a 49ers fan since I was about 9 years old. At the tail end of the Joe Montana era, I started watching