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The Amazon jungle: More eyes than leaves
The meter-long caiman stared at us from its hiding place among the tangle of roots that stretched into…
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Slowly does it in the Galapagos
It looked like a small coconut bobbing on the surface of the emerald green sea. “Look! There’s one!”…
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Galapagos: Where people come last
“Grandpa, what is it like in the Galapagos Islands?” my grandson Lasky will ask me, in a conversation…
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In awe of nature at the edge of an inferno
I’m standing on the edge of the Sierra Negra volcano on Isla Isabela in the Galapagos Islands, feeling…
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Ecuadorian observations
Observations of interesting facets of life in this beautiful, fascinating little country. The street art in Cuenca is…
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Understated bike directions, a stoner’s lunch, and my kind of bus rides
I’m catching on that the uber-casual Ecuadorians have a penchant for understatement. “The road from Banos to Rio…