On the road to Ecuador

Never test the depth of the water with both feet - Anon.

Getting ready to take a red-eye flight to Ecuador tonight. Leaving Seattle at about 11:30 p.m then it's a hop to Dallas, a skip to Miami followed by a modest jump to Quito. Will take about 24 hours to get from point S to point Q but we do have a pretty healthy layover in Miami. I don't know what is new and interesting in the Miami International Airport but we (John, his daughter Janna and myself) will check it out and report if we find anything good.

In theory, the Reader's Digest version of the trip is:

We 3 intrepid travelers and a whole bunch of people we don't know from a radio station travel club in Utah arrive in Ecuador.

Over night in Quito and catch another flight to San Cristobal in the Galapagos where we board our floating home the MV Islander. Much more posh than the Whidbey ferry we are used to riding. "They" say there is internet on the boat, so for a small fee of an arm or perhaps a leg, I should be able to update the blog. "They" said there was internet in India too...... so who knows.

For the next 6 days we putter around and visit quite a few of the islands where we will land and view some of the amazing and varied wildlife. Such as the famous giant tortoise, the marine iguanas, blue footed boobies , sea lions, and flamingos. All that and, I'm willing to bet, some pretty amazing tourist sightings.

At some point we will head back to San Cristobal, abandon ship and fly to Quito. At this point John's daughter Janna will break off and head to Bolivia. We 2 intrepid travelers will then catch a flight to Lima Peru where we will explore Manchu Picchu while gasping for air. Then we head in a round about way home. That's the plan anyway....

Over and out.