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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
What a strange and lovely place this is! The other day I walked several miles down a white sandy beach to a place called Tortuga Bay, where huge marine iguanas sun themselves on the volcanic rocks. These are the creatures that Darwin once called "stupid." Not so when it comes ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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