Friends: We are getting ready to spend a month in Iceland, and I look forward to posting from there, starting late this month. Part of...

We landed about noon on Baltra Island in the Galapagos to 90 degree weather and 75% humidity. After a 20 minute bus ride to the dock, we...

Quito is a city of 1.5 million, perched in the Andes at about 11,000 feet. We arrived and got a taxi from the "official" taxi kiosk. Our...