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I am dusting off the old travel blog as we start out this morning for our first holiday trip in almost exactly three years.

After an adult lifetime where we marked the passage of time with memories of past trips, American Airlines listings of our upcoming flights, and dreaming and planning for the next trip this has been an unsettled and unsettling three years. Sure, we had plenty to focus on. The fear of Covid. The hiding from Covid. The living with Covid. And the moving back to the United States after 20 years away. But a significant piece of our life puzzle has been sadly missing.

So I will take this moment to be grateful. We booked this trip originally in mid-Feb 2020 expecting to travel in May of 2021 ( with another European experience in between). Then some new virus emerged in the world and we cancelled it a week later.  I remember saying that if we survived Covid, if the world survived Covid and the cruise line didn't go bankrupt that we would rebook it once we all came out the other side.

Sadly nearly a million Americans weren't that lucky. 

But we were.

So here we are.

Heading to Ecuador and the Galapagos.

So very thankful that we can.

Carpe diem.

Everyone, carpe diem.