http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers Escaping the cube. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:14:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our blog, that is. While I'm still working on moving old entries, from now on we'll be writing new entries on our own website, where we'll have some more flexibility for design, and other, non-blog content. Update your links and feeds. The new site is www.2wanderers.ca/blog. Our RSS feed can ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/weve-moved.html We've been home for a few weeks now, and have finally gotten all of our pictures online. Our attempts at creating a group to pool both our pictures at haven't really worked out - I can't put them in order - so they're on our individual pages.Neil's picturesKathy's pictures A ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/pictures.html Yesterday we biked down Cotopaxi. Despite a bit of rain - including some sleet while we were at the top of our ride, just shy of 15,000 feet, it was a lot of fun with extraordinary scenery and would have made an outstanding end to our trip. Unfortunately, it was ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/trapped.html After Baños, we were ready for a quieter place. Cities and towns of all sizes here are very noisy. So we headed off on what the guidebooks describe as the Quilotoa loop, basically just a series of mountain roads roughly making a circle through some fairly remote regions. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/the-inaccessible-andes.html Baños on a Cloudy Morning We´ve been in Baños for a couple of days, and have spent some of that time resting in the very nice room we found - it overlooks a lovely garden, and has plenty of hot water! Baños hasn´t quite been the town that I expected ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/horses-volcanoes-and-kitsch-in-banos.html Fields of the Ecuadorian Lowlands When we'd booked our flights to the Galapagos, we'd arranged to fly back into Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. While it sounds like there is a lovely riverfront promenade and some neat historical districts, Guayaquil itself wasn't really the attraction, just where the flight lands. ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/mad-dash-to-cuenca.html Sea Lions at Bartolome Our past few days on a boat have been fantastic. The scenery and animals have been fantastic, as has been the food and the snorkelling. Day 1 Our schedule worked out well, since the boat had gone to the Darwin centre in the morning, something we'd already done, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/swimming-with-the-sharks-amongst-other-things.html Just a quick note to say that we are boarding the boat today, the Estrella del Mar II, and will be back on solid ground come Monday. Don't expect to hear from us until Tuesday evening, when we'll be back in Guayaquil (on the mainland), though maybe if we're ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/asailing-we-will-go.html Giant Tortoise We arrived in the Galapagos on Tuedsay morning, and have been having a great time. The first night we stayed in a not so nice motel type place, but have since moved to a very nice hotel, complete with air conditioning and hot water - aren't we spoiled! We ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/dancing-in-the-sand-and-sea.html We awoke today to pouring rain. Pouring. The rain stopped around 10, about the time we stepped off the most sardine-packed tram I have ever ridden in my life. But that's part of the adventure. We wandered around Mariscal Sucre, also known by some as Gringoland, or ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/2wanderers/adventures-in-a-new-city.html