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Galapagos Day 2 of 12

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I left off with the plane landing uneventfully.

Got my bag and headed out. I was running on some crazy energy. Basic immigration line and thankfully having been up front in the plane I got an early start on the line. That was quick too. Maybe because they all seemed so tired being up that early. Oh yeah. We landed like 30 minutes early at 0345 or something. After immigration it was off for my bags. It took a while for my checked bags to come. Intact and appearing to be unopened it was off to customs. Pretty fast there as well. I gave my form, put all my bags including hand bag on the scanner belt and picked them up. That was it. I left that area wondering if I’ll find my ride. You know. New country. I don’t speak the language well enough. I also don’t have a phone that I can use for calls and I also can’t find my info sheet of phone numbers that I need in case of problems. Well. No problems. Continue reading →

Galapagos Day 1 of 12

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(update: if you want to skip all the chatter and just look at all the photos you can go to www.flickr.com/santasfallenangel/sets )

I’m on my way to the Galapagos. I knew I would be as I am the who booked the trip to begin with. I got home after work and had about a 48 hour turnaround to get ready for this trip, that’s including sleep. I wasn’t awestruck or anything when I was getting things ready. Same basic setup. Do the laundry. Make sure the mail is on hold. Remind people you are leaving. Get your todo list of the things you can’t forget with a tiered down secondary and tertiary list of the things it would suck to forget and the stuff you can always pick up if you really needed to. Don’t forget: passport, money. I think that’s about it. Yes it’s nice to have clothes and other things but with a credit card you can probably pick up most things you need. Most people that know me would assume, rightly, I would have also included camera, batteries, and battery chargers. I think those would fall into the second tier of things that would suck to forget. It is the galapagos. Darwin’s finches, giant tortoises humping, the things dreams are made of, or at least the things that I learned about in science that stirs the imagination. A phone camera will work also and worst case is I’d have to resort to my memory, which is something I most assuredly don’t want to do. Besides, we don’t have the interface yet to extract the videos and pictures stored in my head.

(Pause for airport) Continue reading →