Galapagos Adventure July 2017 We have been planning this trip for over a year, inviting our family to join us and working with their schedules, we selected July 17 through 25, 2017. Family includes daughter Tammi, granddaughter Jami and her husband Brandon and their two girls, Madison, age 8 and Emma, age 7. Emma loves penguins and that is one reason we chose Galapagos. Despite being on the equator, there are some colder ocean currents that allow penguins to live here. Ecuador is the Spanish word for the equator. Maybe that is intuitive to you, but I had to actually read that somewhere before the light dawned on me. Galapagos is the Spanish word for saddle, which was applied to the saddle-shaped shell of the huge tortoises which the Spaniards actually rode. The name stuck and became the term for the area. Also of interest is that Ecuador uses US currency, so we do not have to make currency exchange. Cost of this trip $41,321. Ecuador Introduction A diminutive country that ...