Emptyknitster

Hubby and I had been dreaming of a trip to the Galapagos and Amazon Rain Forest for many years and this was the perfect time to go on another adventure. Traveling is not for the faint of heart if you live in Montana. Living in the northwest part of the United State necessitates leaving a few days earlier than the beginning of your tour. We left the house at 4:30 am for our 6:00 flight and flew to Miami, got a hotel and then didn't fly to Guayaqull, Ecuador, until 8:30pm the second night. We had worried about bad weather, snow on our end or a hurricane on the other and in fact Florida was struck by Hurricane Micheal earlier in the week, but luckily not in the Miami area. We were greeted in Guayaquil and taken to our hotel about 1am. We met the others in our group and were on the road by 9am for a day's excursion of the countryside and the city in the afternoon...   Along the road Street vendors were selling baskets of freshwater crab caught in the mangroves. The vendors s