There’s nothing like the crew’s call of ”Whale sighting!” to wrap up our small-ship cruise adventure of the Galapagos Islands. We drop everything and run to two waiting pangas that will carry us into the heart of the action.
“Hurry! Hop on!” We waste …
8 Islands, 4 Equator Crossings, 1 Night of Choppy Seas . . .
“There are no good hair days on the Galápagos Islands,” claims Roni, a fellow passenger aboard the MV Evolution.
After several futile attempts to keep my own in place, I nod, ...
“Do you speak Spanish?” asks the unsmiling custom agent. ”Well, no, not really, just a few words,” I say.
“So what’s wrong with Spanish?”
Uh-oh.
“Nothing, nothing at all. I love Spanish! But . . . ” I begin to offer a host of excuses …
Seattle-based Nancy Mueller is a freelance travel writer whose travel articles have appeared in Hemispheres Magazine and on-line at Uptake, GoNomad and Wanderlust and Lipstick. Nancy is the author Read More >>
