January 7, 2025–Heading to Guayaquil, Ecuador

It’s a slow blog day.  We have spent the last couple of days at sea, and will be in Guayaquil, Ecuador tomorrow.  The water has been completely calm, which is always a good thing when you are on a ship.  After 7 days of planes, trains and buses, sitting still for a while feels really great.  And this ship has a lot of pretty places to sit.

There are about 700 passengers on this ship, so it seemed like we might not ever see the other 20 people who were at Machu Picchu with us.  However, we have been on here only 3 days and have seen most of them several times.  I have only seen the infamous Heather of “lost on the trail” fame once.  Strangely, she went to Machu Picchu on her own while her husband, Bill, chilled out at the hotel in Lima for 4 days.  Guess Bill wasn’t up for it.  Oh, wait, neither was Heather.  Apparently, Heather and Bill are heavily into the bridge club on the ship (the card game, not the captain’s bridge).  So, I guess they pretty much sit around all day and play bridge with other bridge lovers.  Sorry, but that seems boring.  But I digress.  I was going to point out that I actually enjoy seeing and chatting with the other 19 people from the Machu Picchu adventure, which is surprising.  I think we might have possibly bonded.  Of course not for life, or anything like that.  Just a temporary January 2025 bond until the cruise ends.   

In the picture above, Heather is the woman holding the white hat. At the last minute she barged in front of Doug and me, so we are almost hidden. By now you are probably thinking, “Ann needs to give it a dang rest about Heather.” I will eventually.

Oh, and another thing.  Remember the cute baby alpaca picture I posted a few days ago?  At least a couple of people in our group booked a restaurant so they could eat some alpaca.  They said it was delicious.  No, thanks.  I can’t eat cute animals.  

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As a final thought, I listen to a podcast called Family Trips (hosted by Seth Meyers) and at the end of each podcast he asks the guest if they prefer their trips to be educational, relaxing or adventurous. I think I lean towards relaxing and educational, but Doug pushes me towards adventurous.  Which do you prefer?