This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today, we went to South Plaza, one of two islands that broke away from the large island of Santa Cruz. Both the islands were formed by geological uplift and tilt to the north, with cliffs on their southern coasts. We even…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today we were on the island of Isabela. It is the largest island in the Galapagos and the most recently active (the last eruption was in 2015). It’s actually shaped like a seahorse and is really the amalgamation of five coalesced volcanos. …
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Greetings from Floreana Island, a middle-aged island at just over 2 million years of age. This island was the first capital of the Galapagos. The reason we were there was to hike to a small brackish lagoon where we found over 100…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Greetings from Española, the southernmost and one of the oldest of the Galápagos Islands. As appears to be the daily program, there are generally three activities during the day, in two different locations. Today we made two stops: Gardner Bay, a nearly…
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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 Upper Midwest Tour 2021 After Mackinac, it was time to start the last leg of our trip — heading south along Lake Michigan to visit 2 national lakeshores and parks and visit with some friends. The terrain took a decided turn from the rocky shorelines we had experienced…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 For years I’ve heard people rave about Mackinac Island — the history, the hotels, the restaurants — and no cars! Part of the reason for this trip was to visit there, which we did for 4 days. Getting to Mackinac is by passenger-only ferry. …
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 From Bond Falls, we drove to Munising, MI, the home of Pictured Rocks National Seashore. We were interested in comparing the stories of Munising and nearby Grand Marais (yeah, a second one!) and Pictured Rocks with Bayfield and the Apostle Islands. They both had…
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This is part of a series called Upper Midwest Tour 2021 After our short stint in Wisconsin, it was time to head to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, locally known as the UP. In fact, people up here call themselves “Yoopers,” (think UPers). I get that kind of thing; after all the University of Washington…
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