Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Argentina on Feb 12th, 2011
Crying “Eva Peron!” Needless to say, we made it to Buenos Aires. Amazingly, despite a nearly 2 hour delay in Atlanta after a 5+ hour layover (odd fact: we flew over Tampa again nearly 12 hours after first leaving home), we actually had a completely uneventful trip… in fact, in the almost 24 hours door-to-door […]
Posted in Antarctica, Infinity, South America on Feb 4th, 2011
Here’s a cool animation on YouTube that shows our itinerary:
Posted in Antarctica, South America on Jan 14th, 2011
We’re now about a month away from our trip to South America and Antarctica. I have mixed feelings about this journey. I really don’t expect it to be the ‘best trip ever’ or even anything closely approximating such an outcome. I’d call it ‘wildly successful’ if we 1) make it to all of the scheduled […]
Our day began under mostly cloudy skies, which quickly cleared to brilliant blue punctuated by the occasional, floating puffy cotton ball. Unlike prior mornings, we all had breakfast in the Garden Cafe. And, then we passed the morning enjoying the sights of nearby Nevis and the sail into our port of call, St. Kitts. We […]
I’ve often read that the life of old-time mariners was dominated by routines… a repetitive series of watches: scrubbing the decks, navigational observations, consumption of (often equally repetitive) meals and drink, etc. While perhaps boring, I understand that crews were less happy when the routine was interrupted (unless, of course, the disruption involved clearing the […]