So we got back home last night at 2:00 a.m., after getting up at 5:00 a.m. Quito time, flying to Miami, getting endlessly delayed due to tropical storm Fay, and then finally getting back into Denver after midnight. It took a bit of the shine off the trip, but honestly that sour taste has already started to fade after sleeping in my own bed and pouring some coffee into me. I have a huge batch of fresh new amazing memories and wonder over the past 11 days of my life. I’ll have pictures and more later.
But for now it’s laundry, grocery shopping, house cleaning, and napping. I’ll post more later (the pictures will take a while, as I shot nearly 1000). But this is all good stuff, and I’m a happy man.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:49 am
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August 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Can I stow away in your luggage next time?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Welcome back! The Northern Hemisphere wasn’t the same without you.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Good to have you back, BA…
August 19th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I thought the word “cookies” or something similar would follow the words “I have a huge batch of fresh…” so I was extremely disappointed by this.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Traveling, exploring and seeing new wonders is a great thing and the additional feeling of arriving back home and settling in is also wonderful. Then on to the next adventure!
Looking forward to your choice pictures and learning more.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I was expecting cookies as well, maybe muffins.
I’ll let you complain about the travel when you are on the road as much as me. Took me 58 hours to get home from Vietnam last week. Heads still buzzing and my wife is sick. Sorry to be the martyr. Pareidolia of the brain. Just kidding.
I travel much of the world, but envy you the Galapagos. Maybe next year.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Thanks, Viewer 3. Now I’m craving cookies.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Oh, BA. Another welcome home present, Michael Horn is chomping at the bit for your analysis of his “evidence”.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Welcome back.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Welcome home, Mr. President!
August 19th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Only 1000 images? next time, bring me along as your official photographer. I shoot that many in one day when I do weddings. I could certainly knock out 10 or 20 times that much during a trip like yours.
Heck, on a vacation to Texas “back in the good old film days” I would still shoot 20 rolls of film.
Glad your back on our soil sir. We need you here to fight for truth, justice, and the scientific way!
August 19th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Wow, am I glad you’re back!
None of the drains have flowed in the right direction the whole time you were gone.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Everyone knows that no one has ever been to the Galapagos! What are you editing out of your pictures? It is obvious that if you had nothing to hide you would release them right away.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Phil, I read your first Galapagos post on the same day as Scott Adams report on his stay at an ultra-luxury resort in Fiji.
I hate you both!
August 19th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I’d like to say I’m jealous, but that would endanger the grouchy hermit image I’m going for.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Welcome home, Dr. Phil
August 19th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
@PG
He needs to edit out the Starbucks that was on every crag.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Welcome home Phil! I can’t wait to hear all about your trip and see some pictures!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Welcome back to the northern hemisphere Phil and family. Did you have to pay extra for the genuine “huricane experience”? Didn’t that turn it into an “adventure holiday”?
I’m not a professional photographe like Kevin, however I work way cheaper. (Whatever he bids, I’ll take half.)
August 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Welcome home, Phil! It’s always good to get back in one’s own bed, no matter how great the trip was.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Welcome home, bro. Can’t wait to hear all about it.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
My family and I recently went to the Channel Islands National Park — known as the “Galapogos of North America”.
We didn’t see any really big tortoises or marine iguanas, but we did see lots of marine mammals and sea birds. And it was a lot closer and cheaper! I recommend it for everybody whose budget won’t stretch to the real Galapogos.
Meanwhile, welcome back!
August 20th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Welcome home. The Northern hemisphere can breathe a sigh of relief. We can all come out from the cupboards under the stairs now that our protector has returned
August 20th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Glad you and family and friends enjoyed trip and returned safely.
Looking forward to live posts.