Our trip to the Galapagos has been a magical and unforgettable experience. The islands are renowned for the fearless wildlife that roam and swim about but no amount of knowledge can prepare you for the endless encounters with the wildlife here. We are guests in their home – it’s very humbling. We’ve been snorkelling with […]
Following Darwin’s Footsteps
Friday found us stepping off the aeroplane onto Isla San Cristobal (formerly Chatham Island) in the Galapagos like a couple of excited children. Here we are in the most important zoological area of the world in the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. We are ready for further education and enlightenment. We want to […]
Travelling south through Ecuador
It may come as a bit of a surprise that despite us being away we still have a lot of ‘administration’ to do – emails, phone calls, banking and even haircuts. Our ventures out into Quito before we headed south required us to find a bank that accepted our cards, a hairdresser for Sven where […]
Quito: Hola mis amigos!
How do you prepare for and mentally adjust for Latin America following the USA. By taking a long-haul flight where the crew were indifferent, the food was horrible, the lounges only offered weak, luke-warm coffee and the in-flight entertainment was broken – then everything else shall be perfect by comparison! Our arrival into Quito was true Latin […]
San Diego – The end of golf :(
The drive to San Diego is long – 353miles to be precise but it’s an interesting route and worth driving to experience the changes across the deserts. Going across the state line with California, the deserts are quite mountainous with large flat plans intersecting them. Then where the state line borders with Mexico at Yuma, the desert […]
Flight to Phoenix
We didn’t want to leave the Canyon and so ventured out on our final day to the eastern end where we viewed the gorges from the ‘Mather Point’ and the expanse of the area known as the Painted Desert that runs eastwards from the Canyon and is home to the ‘Little Colorado River Canyon’ – […]
The Grand Canyon – it’s a long way down!!
On Saturday we left behind the buzz of Vegas and made our way to Arizona, whose state line with Nevada, runs right through the middle of the Hoover Dam. It took us an hour to travel 4mls to get over the dam but the journey was worth seeing this magnificent engineering structure. What was unexpected […]