Archive for December, 2007

From “home” in the Galapagos

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Hello from my casita in Puerto Ayora on Isla Santa Cruz. I am quite lucky to have found such a place on this island. Out on my patio, lava lizards do push-ups on the volcanic rocks, and Darwin's finches peck at seeds beneath an acacia tree with blossoms the color ...

Greetings from Quito

Monday, December 10th, 2007

It's Sunday morning and church bells peel across the narrow valleys in this Andean city at 9,400 feet. From my hotel room I can see the patchwork fields of potatoes and grain on Volcan Pichincha, which is still geologically active. Down in the streets, vendors from indigenous villages to the ...