Given our affinity for visiting smaller towns while traveling, I located a coastal town in Maine with a population of just over 2,000 people… Boothbay Harbor. … More Guinness Goes to Boothbay Harbor, Maine
While we didn’t stay overnight in New Hampshire, we did make several pit stops. Unfortunately, this excursion landed when COVID was making a comeback in January, so places were a little more restrictive, or just plain closed … More Guinness Goes to Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Being the fools that we are, we opted to drive up into New England with Guinness… our 12 year old Pit Bull. In the dead of one of the coldest winters in quite some time. Days after a blizzard rocked the Northeast. I swear we are usually smart people. … More Guinness Goes to Boston, Massachusetts
An hour and a half outside of Quito, Ecuador lies Volcan Cotopaxi, one of the highest active volcanoes in the world sitting at 19,347 feet (5,897 meters) … More Driving, Hiking & Biking Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador
I had originally planned for three long day hikes once we returned to Quito, first being Quilotoa Crater Lake. It was naive and foolish, especially considering all three required car and/or bus and/or taxi rides greater than an hour to get to … More Laguna Quilotoa… A Short, But Brutal Hike
After eight days galavanting around on the Galapagos getting sunburned and mildly injured, we flew back to Quito, Ecuador. The capital of Ecuador, Quito is the second highest capital city in the world, sitting at 9350 feet … More Everything Quito, Ecuador
Isabela Island is the largest island in the Galapagos, coming in at four times the size of Santa Cruz, where we had just come from. … More Isabela Island, Galapagos… Everything from Tropical Penguins, Sharks & Beaches to Rainforests & Volcanos
Santa Cruz, the most touristy of the isles we stepped foot on in the Galapagos, is called home by approximately 12,000 people (double the last island). The capital of Puerto Ayora is teeming with shops and restaurants. … More Santa Cruz… Punctuated by a Multitude of Giant Tortoises Everywhere
While on San Cristobal in the Galapagos, a few of us set out on a hike to Playa Ochoa that would climax in some mild rock scrambling down to Playa Baquerizo to link up with the marked trail. … More Four Hour Jaunt Turned Injury Laden Nine Hour Calamity on San Cristobal, Galapagos
Anxiety-ridden, pacing my kitchen for hours in the middle of the night, and incessantly checking my email and texts described the hours before we left for Ecuador. Finally, 4 hours prior to the plane taking off the ground, we received our COVID test results. … More Shove It, Travel Shamers – We Got Our Damned Negative Results, so We’re Going to Ecuador
