Here are some photos that I wasn’t going to post. For the most part, this was not a luxury vacation but more of an adventure vacation. I get many comments back from my trips like, “Remind me never to use your travel agent” and “That looks nice but I think I’ll go to Paris”. So while I don’t want to disillusion anyone, we didn’t rough it the entire trip. We got booted off our boat in the Galapagos four days early. To make up for it, they put us up in the Royal Palms Hotel, which is a five-star affair. Here are a few photos. The hotel only had about fifteen bungalows which were stand-alone units and very nice.

In this first photo, Vicky is in the Spa room.

This is from inside the spa room, looking out at our nearest neighbors (Ron and Patty). Vicky wouldn’t pose for me in this photo.

Vicky is by the front door with the big old door key.

We only had to order a fire at a certain time and they sent someone over to build and start the fire for us. We usually ordered our fire for while we were at dinner, so that it was going when we got back from dinner.

Below is me keeping my daily journal which is in the room to the left of Vicky in the first photo.