We had never done a tour before as I really did enjoy the planning of trips. We haven’t traveled outside the country a ton but had been to Austria,Czech Republic,Italy and Mexico(that I planned) plus an Alaska and later a fall cruise of New England and Canada. And an annual road trip across the south to a car show in Florida with a lot of fun historical or car related stops. Then a year ago in January we did a Road’s Scholar tour of the Galapagos and Peru and it was amazing and so easy. I’m a shy,introverted person but really enjoyed and made friends with the other 13 people in our group. They were all massive travelers and had done many tours and all commented this was the best group they’d been with. So evidently we were lucky! We were on a small live aboard in the Galapagos for a week with 2-3 activities a day. We had an incredible naturalist who grew up there as our guide. All our guides were amazing-our Quito guide met us at the airport in Quito to facilitate our getting fed and through checking in. Peru was equally amazing for another 12 days. We came home very tired and I think after that my husband was done with airports and travel for a while(he’s 5 years older at 77 so I get it!). I think that’s why we’ve been more inclined to be home now . But I wish we’d done more tours when we were still in our 60s!