Vilcabamba Ecuador- How do I love thee?
“Is where we are headed lower down than here?” I asked Tom and Philip, feigning indifference. “Lower down?” “I mean altitude, like is it warmer than here?” I asked, failing even more miserably to...
Category: Americas
Harry Potter Landia (aka Cuenca, Ecuador)
As we passed by Cafe Austria for the 7th time on our slightly mixed-up/backtracky self-guided walking tour of Cuenca we decided to stop in for a coffee and dessert. Little did I know that...
Patchwork Quilts – Banos to Cuenca in Photos
I stared out the window of the bus traveling down from Baños to Cuenca pretending that Ecuador was a giant bed and I a lowly bed-bug. It was an easy thing to imagine as...
Extreme Fern Gully
I don’t think I even heard the first couple of people’s coughs. I’m pretty sure I noticed a cough here or there on the terrace of our hostel in Baños that night, but I...
Beautiful Baños
The journey to Banos, Ecuador from the coast was less than ideal. It spanned 10 nighttime hours split across 2 freezing cold, bathroom-less buses. Despite the dramamine and boxed red wine cocktail we only...
Chasing Canoa’s Caves From Mindo to Canoa
We have spent the last couple of days in Canoa, on the coast of Ecuador’s Manabi province. We had heard rumors that Canoa has the nicest beaches and best food Ecuador has to offer....
Ziplining in Mindo, Ecuador
uh, is he?…. yep. He is. Most definitely. There is no doubt about the fact that Tom is rushing toward me as I wait on the zipline landing platform, going about 2,000 miles an...
Isla Isabela (Terra firma)
The cruise was truly an amazing experience, and if we hadn’t left it to travel on to Isabela the great, big, sea-horsed shaped, covered in volcanoes, island of the Galapagos archipelago-We may have even...
Belly Flop!
He leaped off the top of the ship, and quickly rolled his body, neatly preparing for a fantastic dive into the ocean below. SMACK! His body hit the water, starfish shaped in an impressively...
The Funny Thing About Galapagos Animals
One of the things that really makes the Galapagos so special is how all the different species of animals share an almost uniform indifference to humans, wearing it like a cloak over their feathers,...
Captain’s Log star date 02/05/2011
“Look, right there!” Tom was the first on our boat to spot one. “Look! It’s one of those red balloon chest thingies!” “A cormorant?! Cool where?!” “See that bush over there? Its that little...
The Cracks in Puerto Ayora Galapagos
Las Grietas (the cracks) is aptly named I mused to myself as I gazed wonderingly at the towering cliffs of hardened lava above me. The sun-warmed chunks of pitted and cracked lava digging (not...
We are Tom and Jenny. Entrepreneurs, travelers and spicy food aficionados. California is officially "home" but we can usually be found a lot closer to the equatorial belt. We started an app development company and have been calling anywhere with an internet connection "the home office" for the last few years.