to love and wander

Day 7 & 8: James Bay, Rabida and North Seymour

Accommodation: Samba Day 7 On the eve of our last day on the Samba, we were able to take it relatively easy and were on our way to James Bay, on the island of Santiago. After an 8:30a zodiac ride to the bay, we were welcomed by a display of native flora and lava flows. Our…

Day 6: Santiago, Chinese Hat and Bartolome

Accommodations: Samba Our sixth day in the Galapagos was one of heightened anticipation and excitement. When traveling here, you become almost intimately familiar with the native animals and every day is one of adventure as you never fully know what you’ll see next…more to come on that. The island of Santiago is home to a…

Day 5: Santa Fe: Land Iguanas and Prickly Pear Cactus

Accommodation: Samba Our fifth day began a little later than usual. Instead of our ‘normal’ 6:00am breakfast bell wakeup call, we began the day at a respectable 9am as the activities planned were a little on the lighter side. Today we disembarked the Samba for the island of Santa Fe, an extinct volcano with extraordinary inhabitants….

Day 4: San Cristobal Island and Kicker Rock

Accommodation: Samba Our morning in San Cristobal Island began with an early navigation to the North west side of the island to a tuff cone formation known as Kicker Rock. This rock formation emerges from the ocean seemingly out of nowhere but once you come across it, it easily takes your breath away. At over…

Day 3: Marine Iguanas, Nazca Boobies and the Waved Albatross

Accommodation: Samba The early morning of our third day in the archipelago directed us eastward to the island of Espanola, the oldest Galapagos Island. Here, we had our first intrusive encounter with a sea lion colony. The sea lions found in the Galapagos never cease in their hilarity, It is absolutely incredible that such large…

Day 2: Flamingos and Post Office Bay

Accommodation: Samba Our first night onboard our 20 person ship was one of legend…meaning we ended up flailing around every inch of our room. We spent that night navigating south from the island of Santa Cruz to that of Floreana and the seas were rough enough to make one with the strongest of stomachs whimper….

Day 1: GIANT Tortaises

Accommodation: Mansion del Angel; Samba Our first day on the islands came after our early morning flight from Quito through Guayaquil and finally onto the small island of Baltra. Baltra is uninhabited and is located in the middle of the archipelago and was originally developed to serve as a US military base during WWII. As…

When The Countdown Hits Zero…

So what do you get when you take a new job, building and home and planning a vacation? No posts since the last trip! *cue soft laughter* As most of you know, we’ve began a journey that was over a year and a half in the making…with its inception occurring the minute we got home…

A Journeys End

Accommodations: Quinci Villa, Singgigi I haven’t posted anything since our departure from Bali for two reasons: the first, the activities we’ve done haven’t allowed for pictures and the second, those that we do have pictures for we’re either taken from someone else or is on Lauren’s phone…unfortunately I’m not able to extract them here. So…

Monkeys and Rice!

Accommodations: Bisma Eight, Ubud I know when Lauren and I are nearing the midpoint of our trip when she begins to talk like the locals, not necessarily in their language but in the broken English that we hear very frequently during interactions with locals and our guide. Hearing Lauren say: “We from America…no water, in…