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Yearly Archive for 2017

Day #4: To Galapagos

We left our hotel in Quito around 7am, as we were a bit unsure of how long it would take to transit to the airport and make it through the various queues associated with travel to the Galapagos. Traffic wasn’t too bad in that direction despite it being “rush hour” (I assume), which meant that […]

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Day #3: Colonial Quito

After our breakfast this morning, we headed out on our tour of Colonial Quito with our guide, Andres. Unlike yesterday, the day was cloudier with some sporadic light rain showers — not a problem at all. We drove in some very heavy traffic the few kilometers from our hotel in La Colon to the Old […]

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Day #2: Quito & the Equator

Despite the late hour of our arrival, we were all awake before 8am. The morning brought with it out first good view of the city from our hotel room: We had breakfast in the executive lounge, which I **think** is complimentary for me given my Marriott status (if not, I’ll be paying $30 or maybe […]

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Day #1: To Ecuador

Like last year’s Thanksgiving cruise (which I didn’t write about), I was returning from a trip to Washington D.C. on the day before we departed for vacation. I hardly ever enjoy the immediate run-up to a vacation, and I found last minute preparations for this trip to be worse given that we’d be independently traveling […]

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Day #16: Home

Goodbye, London! We flew home from Heathrow on a pleasant and uneventful nine hour flight. The short Alanta-Tampa leg was a bit of a goat rodeo as we somehow managed to get screwed out of our Economy Comfort seats and then lost one of our suitcases at baggage claim in Tampa.  Thankfully, it was mistakenly […]

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