July 23, 2012
Santa Cruz: Where Volcanoes and Desert Collide
When I envisioned the Galapagos Islands, my mental picture was awash in greenery and tortoises and miles of endless beach. I think the other...
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July 20, 2012
Photo Friday: Tortuga Bay, Ecuador
The wildlife may have been the highlight of the Galapagos Islands, but finding a vacant pitch of sand that we claimed all for our own...
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July 19, 2012
A Story about Boobies (of the Blue-Footed Variety)
The most fun I had while on this May’s Enrichment Voyage wasn’t on the guided tour—though those all were brilliant, as...
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July 17, 2012
Lonesome George: One of Galapagos Islands’ Famed Tortoises
We had a brief glimpse at the tortoise life on the Galapagos Islands while exploring the Charles Darwin Research Station on our first day in...
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July 13, 2012
Photo Friday: Puerto Ayora, Ecuador
For some people, a dream trip is heading to the GE Olympics later this month. For me, it was my inaugural visit to a place thought to be the...
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July 11, 2012
Dream Trip: Exploring the Galapagos Islands
After a couple exciting afternoons of birding in Panama, Samantha and I rejoined the ship and were at sea just one day before arriving at the...
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July 9, 2012
Birding in Panama
One thing I never thought I’d do in my young life? Go birding. It’s just one of those science-y activities that never really...
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July 6, 2012
Photo Friday: Soberanía National Park, Panama
On our second full day in Panama, we got up well before the sun to find Semaphore Hill in Soberanía National Park rather reminiscent of San...
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July 4, 2012
Above the Treetops in Panama
The driver is waiting for us in the parking lot as we offload the tender and spill out onto the bustling port, a gray and dreary Panama City...
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July 2, 2012
Books a Million: My Reading List, Part III
My goal for the year was to read 52 books. Currently, I’m falling a bit short of that goal—by four reads. While 22 books...
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