When asked to name the highlight of the trip to Antarctica, one of the most common answers among fellow travelers is South Georgia Island. Interesting you say, considering that this 102 by 22-mile island lies over 1,700 miles from Antarctica. One of the remotest places on earth, with harsh weather and challenging mountainous terrain, half…
Antarctica from the Beginning to the Falklands
The last post covered highlights of the trip to whet your appetite. Next, we will cover the places we went and what we saw in more detail. The first step is getting ourselves to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Regular readers know that this is not my favorite place on the planet. Better than Camden, NJ, I…
A Top Notch Trip to the Bottom of the World
Greetings friends! I had intended to post long before now, but stuff happened. Holiday stuff, family stuff, Covid stuff- at one point over the holidays the covidians outnumbered the caretakers 3-2. It was not the holiday any of us wished for, but I am grateful those stricken are recovering and that we have five bedrooms…
Mis-Adventures in travel
Travel opens us up to new experiences, sometimes to those you neither expect nor desire. That’s the roll of the dice. No matter how carefully planned the itinerary or how many contingency plans are in place, stuff happens. It rains on Derby day, the tour guide comes down with the scourge of the moment, the…
Back below the artic circle
Greenland’s fjords were so spectacular it was sad to leave. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I would write. But we had to get back to civilization eventually, if nothing else before the sea ice closes in. And while Iceland may not have massive mountains and icebergs, it has plenty of its own kind…
Greenland is Icy
And that is about all I could have told you about Greenland before we made our way in that direction. Home to 56,000 people and technically a self-governing region of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is world’s largest island that is not a continent. Viking Erik the Red put the “Green” in the name as…
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