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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]