On Tuesday night I was in the kitchen preparing dinner. I am not much of an executive cook so my dinner was going to consist of a baked potato and some soup. As I was just getting everything together I got a call from my sister Nancy. Nancy works for a local Seattle travel agency. A couple of weeks before I had asked her to put together a vacation and that included the Amazon River. I had always wanted to fly down to that area to see what it was like. The information and prices she gave me brought a smile to my face.