Tuesday, February 3rd It felt like it had been ages since we crossed into Ecuador so anticipation was high for a border crossing. I actually felt rusty about the procedure, but we’d read this was going to be a very chill crossing that wouldn’t take too much time. We had breakfast at the hotel, went […]
Monday, February 2 I have really enjoyed Cuenca. It is a very neat and orderly city with stunning architecture set in the beautiful rolling hills of southern Ecuador. It was time for us to move on and try to get as close as possible to the border with Peru. After the usual jumble of trying […]
Sunday, February 1 I was very happy with our selection of hostal Chordeleg. It was a converted colonial home right in the center of Cuenca. Not only did we get to park our bikes in the lobby, our room was clean and spacious with a little balcony overlooking one of the churches. The included breakfast […]
Saturday, January 31 We did the impossible and actually were up and out of our hotel room before eight. The staff of the hotel had been fighting or partying or something all night, so we had not slept well. Our efforts were rewarded with every single breakfast place we had picked out the night before […]
Friday, January 30 We were ready to be out of the big city and our goal for the day was only a modest distance to the town of Baños. With good directions from the staff at our hotel, we managed to navigate out of Quito without too much trouble. The freeway we were on didn’t […]
Thursday, January 29 Finally, after being in Quito for two and a half days running errands and scheduling our Galapagos tour we had a full day to enjoy some sightseeing. We were mainly interested in visiting the Centro Historico, which features colonial architecture the Spanish constructed over the remains of the Inca city. We had […]
Wednesday, January 28 Before we left for the Galapagos, we had scheduled an appointment with their Kawasaki dealer to take a final shot at fixing Inna’s oil leak. I also wanted to get both bike’s an oil change as this would be the last major city we’d be in for a while. Additionally, my rear […]
We have plenty more images and videos from our Galapagos trip, so rather than crush the main page with them, we’ve added a collection of pages with images from each island. You can find the images and video here: Galapagos.
Tuesday, January 27 We had one final stop in the Galapagos before being taken to Baltra to the airport. We were stopping at Las Bachas, to see more flamingos. It was another wet beach landing and once ashore, we walked the short distance to the tiny brackish pond. No flamingos. This made for a fairly […]
Monday, January 26 Overnight the boat transited from Española to Floreana. This was an east to west move, so the boat pitched forward and back against the swell as opposed to the previous night’s side to side. For whatever reason I sleep better in that motion. This morning’s excursion was to Post Office Bay. Since […]