Galapagos: August 2022: Day 10: Return

Index
Day 1 - Guayaquil
Day 2 - Embarkation
Day 3 - N. Seymour/Rabida
Day 4 - Fernandina/Isabela
Day 5 - Isabela
Day 6 - Santiago
Day 7 - Santa Cruz
Day 8 - San Cristobal
Day 9 - San Cristobal
Day 10 - Return

Galapagos

August 2022: Day 10: Return

Guayaquil to Panama City, 3:30am departure with a 5:30am arrival.

This early, Coffee Bean is about the only thing open at PTY.

Smoked salmon wrap was gross.

Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf seems to be dying in the USA, but doing okay internationally.

Hot chocolate at 6:00am.

Ham and eggs for the 3.5 hour flight from Panama City to Houston.

United Club, Terminal E, Houston Intercontinental Airport.

Standard United Club food will never win any awards.

Taco bar sure beats frozen burritos.

The old dorm-style business class on an old United 777-200.

Still way better than domestic first class on a 737.

The final day of the trip (day 10) felt almost like a continuation of day 9, with a brutal 3:30am flight from Guayaquil to Panama (GYE-PTY). Coffee Bean at Panama Tocumen International Airport before 6:00am was almost as bad an idea, at least their cold smoked salmon roll was. To be fair the hot chocolate was pretty decent.

Upgrades cleared right before boarding on the second flight, from Panama to Houston (PTY-IAH), and managed to sleep maybe half the flight. Upgrade cleared again for the final flight of the trip, where United's ancient 2-4-2 "dorm" style business class seat was still a welcome opportunity to lie-flat and get a few hours' sleep.

The Galapagos is an amazing place-- one of the few that seems to be undersold if anything else-- and is definitely a bucket-list trip worth doing.