This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 On our way to the Galapagos! We’ve wanted to do this trip for a number of reasons. Of course, to walk in the footsteps of Darwin and to appreciate the thought processes he had as he explored the islands and captured his…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 After COVID delays in 2020 and 2021, we finally left on our trip to Ecuador and Peru, notably to visit the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. Given that we were already wintering in Puerto Vallarta, we flew to our first stop in…
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This is part of a series called Chile 2019 After leaving Rapa Nui, we spent a very short night at the Santiago Airport before flying off to Calama in Northern Chile — the nearest airport to San Pedro de Atacama. We had heard that they were getting some rain, which is not unusual for the…
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This is part of a series called Chile 2019 After the wind, cold, and beauty of Patagonia, we headed back to the steaminess of Santiago for a few days, both to do a bit more touring and to watch the Super Bowl. It got up to about 95 degrees in the afternoon so even with…
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This is part of a series called Chile 2019 After a very “hot” time in Santiago, we were ready for some cooler weather. And we definitely got it when we arrived in Cohaique, the capital city of the province of the same name, in the Aysén Region of Patagonia. This area is surrounded by snow-covered…
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This is part of a series called Chile 2019 After a nearly nine hour flight from Mexico City (blessedly uneventful), we arrived in Santiago. The airport is about ten miles out of the city and luckily we arrived at 6:00 am and got into the city before rush hour began. Our home for our five…
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This is part of a series called Antactica Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2018 We just finished two days in the Falkland Islands — initially in the largely unpopulated islands off West Falkland and then into Stanley in East Falkland. The Falklands are interesting in many dimensions. Originally the islands broke off from the South African…
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This is part of a series called Antactica Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2018 Fulfilling one of Deb’s “bucket list” must-dos, we decided to go to Antarctica over Christmas and New Years with Hurtigruten, a Norwegian cruise line that we had taken when we did the fjords of Norway some years back. Rather than fly all…
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