yeaton.net: Travels http://www.yeaton.net/ Travels and Ramblings Copyright 2006 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:51:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ecuador Part One: Quito and Otavalo The travel bug has bitten us once again! This time, we're spending five weeks in Ecuador and Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. Our first stop was in Quito to relax and check out the city and surrounds.

Quito is a rather pretty city, with lots of hills to wander. At nearly 3k meters above sea level, we were missing our oxygen! Wonder what Machu Picchu will feel like? We met a cheerful and very capable traveller named Eugenia and toured around Old Town together.

]]> http://www.yeaton.net/archives/2005/07/ecuador_part_on.htm http://www.yeaton.net/archives/2005/07/ecuador_part_on.htm Ecuador Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:47:28 -0800 Alcatraz Thanks to our good friend Marien, my brother Russ and I were able to get some last minute tickets for the Alcatraz night tour. The weather was perfect, and the views spectacular. It must have been painful to spend years on this island, with the sights and sounds of the world all around you. Here's a couple of photos to imagine what it looked like to them.

]]> http://www.yeaton.net/archives/2005/07/alcatraz.htm http://www.yeaton.net/archives/2005/07/alcatraz.htm Travels Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:46:22 -0800 Yosemite Along with Russ, Marita, Sammy and Val, we headed up to Yosemite last week. The weather was beautiful, and we had a great spot right on the river.

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A view of Yosemite Falls and the valley. To see and hear the water going over the top, click here!
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April 22. To get to Torres, we flew from Buenos Aires to El Calafate, had a car drive us 3 hours to the Chilean border, where we met our guide who drove us the rest of the way. After many hours of driving across flat, windy terrain (las Pampas), the site of the mountains rising up is quite breathtaking!

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