The Trip Home and Stuff You Don't Put on FaceBook

After that last spectacular day of hiking and snorkeling, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling awful.  We'd all had dinner on the ship and had all had tuna- but my system disagreed with it.  Violently.   I worried, of course.  We were leaving for the airport in the morning, headed to Quito and then a 1 AM flight to Houston with a connection in Houston.  

Fortunately, the symptoms gradually stopped.  Most of what I remember from the trip was sleeping at every opportunity (thank heaven for airline lounges) and living on water and yogurt for 2 days.  

Schedule (approximately):

11:30 AM- Depart Baltra (Galapagos)

4:15 PM- Arrive Quito

12:40 AM- Depart Quito. Fortunately the tour company booked day rooms for us till 9 PM.  I had to bypass 95% of the lovely food at the dinner buffet and in the airline lounge but I took full advantage of the nap room in the airline lounge, carefully setting my phone alarm.  Flight left an hour late anyway.

5:40 AM- Arrive Houston.  I slept through dinner but "breakfast" was a nasty over-sweetened plastic-wrapped muffin and juice or water.  No coffee- not that I would have risked drinking it.  Pitiful.  I took another nap in the airline lounge.

1:00 PM- Depart Houston

2:30 PM- Arrive in Kansas City

Still- what a trip!  I'm grateful I was finally able to finish it 3 years late.