It's amazing how hard it is to get to the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
SunCountry flight msp to mco (Orlando) 3 hours.
Rented a car and drove 3 hours to fll (Fort Lauderdale) where our confirmed spirit flight to Ecuador was out of.
Wake up Friday morning have a bite to eat and then go to Walmart to get water bottle and go pro charge cord. Which they didn't have so we went to Best Buy and subway to have food for the flight. And by that time with all the traffic it was time to fill up the rental car and get to the airport. After circling the airport a couple times trying to find rental car return we finally found it. Dropped the car off. And checked in for the spirit flight. Of course I could check in online with a boarding pass but Matt always causing trouble couldn't.
Got him checked in and corrected the gate agent who moved us from our confirmed paid for exit row seats to a different row. Back to window aisle of exit row and through security. Luckily Matt got precheck too so it was super quick to get in. Hit up duty free for a bottle of whiskey to bring on board our cruise and then sat down at a Cuban restaurant while we waited for our flight. Matt ordered some fried chicken with beans and rice which was okay. Before we knew it it was time to board.
Our bags made it into the overhead and we were making friends with the flight attendant in the exit row. Only problem is he was only three weeks in and a total rule follower.
4 hour flight to gye (some city in Ecuador I don't know how to pronounce). Land and call the hotel and they sent a shuttle to pick us up. A Wyndham garden in with free brekke. The travel agency we booked the cruise through arranged for a airport delivery for us.
He was picking us up at 840 for a 1040 flight. He arrived early. And drove us the three minutes to the airport and walked us through the customs checkpoints to enter Galapagos (numerous bag screenings) and we checked our bags (with two bottles carefully packed away) and we went to our gate.
2 more hour flight, the gate agents bug sprayed all the overhead bins before arrival and we finally arrived on Baltra Island of the Galapagos. Walked up the volcanic wasteland into the airport. We had to wait in lone and pay $100 plus a $5 bus fee. The island only has the airport on it. We had to wait for a dog to sniff all the checked baggage. Once that was cleared up we went out to find our bus. 15 minute ride down to the water. We then had to board a water ferry to cross 100 yards of a waterway. $1 each. Once we got to the other side we had to wait for all the bags which were precariously thrown up too the ferry to be unloaded. Matt waited for our bags and I found a taxi. $25 for the 40km ride into Puerto Ayora. Bags thrown in the back of the truck and we were on our way to hotel Ninfa
Along the way we had to swerve around a giant tortoise just hanging out on the side of the road.
We arrived and dropped our bags and went exploring the town of Puerto Ayora. Lots of restaurants with 3x10$ drink specials. Had a round plus some calamari before we went searching for water and snacks for the next day.
Snacks found. Went walking along the harbor for dinner. Found a brewery across, had chicken fajitas and a sausage sandwich. Walked along the waterway back to the hotel and passed a tree full of pelicans and some seals and iguanas hanging out.
Tortuga beach and Charles Darwin research center the next day.
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