Friday, January 16 We slept in until 9, enjoying the plush bed. Our first order of business for the day was finding some maps of Colombia and possibly a guide book. Lew had drawn us a map showing how to get to two book stores, which would likely have maps. By the time we had […]
Sunday, January 18 Despite the party the night before, we managed to get up early and be ready to head out by 8:30. We felt bad about waking up Lew and Jennifer to say goodbye, as they’d been up quite late, but it would have been rude to miss a proper farewell. We thanked them […]
Monday, January 19 We slept well and woke up early. We ate a Mexico style convenient store breakfast of coffee, some yogurt, and a granola bar. Since it was still raining, we weren’t very enthusiastic about touring the Cafe Zone, as beautiful as it was. We were aiming for a long day of riding with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wednesday, February 4 Breakfast wasn’t included in this hotel, so we had a quick breakfast next door for $6 total. Peru was much cheaper than Ecuador if you avoided the obvious tourist places. We were on the road by 9, only to go park ourselves back at the Yamaha dealer. I had decided overnight I […]