Words from Chelsea So at some point in your life you stop what you are doing and look around..and you say to yourself, ¨I´M ON A PIRATE SHIP IN THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS!!¨ At that point... you realize that life is completely incredible. It causes you to coin terms like EML (Envy My Life). Anyways...How we got here... So we flew in from Guayaquil, went through the most absurd baggage checks (they used drug dogs on our bags) and arrived at our ship all on Thrusda...

Today began with Chelsea yelling at me to get my nappy self out of bed. Apparently it isn´t any easier to wake up on this side of the world. After a quick breakfast at the Magic Bean, we headed to Coffee&Toffee to meet our fellow travel companions and begin the day´s adventure. The first person we met was the other American, *Paul* , and he quickly proved to be quite the caricature of an American Tourist. Heart of gold and completley clueless. A native bo...

So Kate and I have successfully completed 1.5 days here in Quito. We got in yesterday at about 1:45pm after being checked for Swine Flu twice (Quito and San Jose). We are sitting in the Papaya Cafe right now. I think Kate is looking up information on busses to Salinas and I am supposed to be looking up info on something but gave up awhile ago. We went to a mexican restaurant across from our hostal last night and we were the only people in there so they put on a ...