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Sue Stipek
- Dec 17, 2022
- 5 min
Ecuador to Galapagos: Part Three - Santa Cruz, The Galapagos Islands
After a two and half hour flight from Quito, we arrived at Baltra Island Airport. We knew that we'd be assessed a fee to enter the...
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Sue Stipek
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
Ecuador to Galapagos: Part Two - Chilcabamba
We hired an Uber to drive us to the lodge I had booked, just outside the Cotopaxi National Park. The fare was very reasonable for the...
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Sue Stipek
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
Ecuador and Galapagos: Part One - Quito
We have been back from Ecuador for one week now and the laundry is done, we've stocked back up on food and are slowly putting away the...
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Sue Stipek
- Oct 9, 2022
- 5 min
2020 to 2022: What have we been doing?
Why we took a Hiatus from the website. Now we are back.
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Sue Stipek
- Feb 13, 2020
- 4 min
Montverde to La Fortuna and home again ...
The drive from Montverde was back over some of the same roads that we had used to get there, but it veered off around Lake Arenal toward...
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Sue Stipek
- Feb 7, 2020
- 3 min
Samara to Montverde
The road for the first couple of hours back into the interior was the primary road that we had covered on the way to the coast, but when...
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Sue Stipek
- Feb 4, 2020
- 2 min
Highway to Heaven
It's not easy to relax even though we are retired. San Jose was hectic and we did our usual museum thing, but Colina Del Mar required...
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Sue Stipek
- Jan 29, 2020
- 3 min
Costa Rica Nicoya Peninsula
We left San Jose around 10am for a 5 hour trip to Samara. Originally, I had intended to take the ferry from Puntarenas to Montezuma and...
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Sue Stipek
- Jan 26, 2020
- 3 min
New Adventure in Costa Rica
We flew nonstop from Dulles to San Jose International airport in Costa Rica. There is only one nonstop on United from Dulles per week,...
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Sue Stipek
- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
Sarajevo ...
Our flight from Belgrade was short but it was raining when we got to Sarajevo. We took a taxi to our hotel near the old town. Traffic...
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Sue Stipek
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
Belgrade .... delightful surprise
We spent 4 nights in Belgrade with a day trip to Novi Sad. Belgrade was quite a surprise. It was a challenge to find our hotel as it is...
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Sue Stipek
- Sep 5, 2019
- 2 min
Smartphone Updated from Serbia
Well as it happens it was very important that we had a smartphone with us as we left Romania. We spent our last night in Romania at a...
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Sue Stipek
- Sep 2, 2019
- 2 min
Romania - you need a Smartphone ......
Yes, the smartphone is ubiquitous in Romania, as it is throughout the world – but here you just about can’t get around without one. And...
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Sue Stipek
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
Bucharest - moving forward
My impression of Bucharest after admittedly a brief stay is that it is a recovering democracy. We have traveled to several former...
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Sue Stipek
- Aug 29, 2019
- 3 min
First Impressions of Romania - Bucharest and accessibility
Our trip to Bucharest was uneventful - just a long day of travel. We took a cab from the airport as it was after 7pm by the time we got...
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