All,
Back in America. What a cool and amazing trip this was (I say cool, but actually, the temperature in Antarctica was about 20 degrees warmer than it was in Erie. It was around 30 degrees there and, of course, never got dark. A weird phenomenon).
It was awesome to experience a part of the world that most people never get to see. And the landscape really is ferocious and beautiful at the same time. Crazy that there are no land animals whatsoever on this entire continent (bigger than North America). And crazy to think that at one point in Earth’s history, Antarctica was attached to all the rest of the continents in one giant land mass.
When I was a kid growing up in NYC, we would sometimes go to the Museum of Natural History on class trips. I remember the entrance being a very long hallway, and on the wall was a mural of TIME from the Big Bang forward. The formation of stars, planets, and life on Earth. And I remember when you got to the end of the hallway, it said; ‘The last coat of paint on this handrail represents the amount of time humans have been alive’.
This trip made me remember those visits.
It’s funny that Neil deGrasse Tyson, the head of the Hayden Planetarium, was one of the guests onboard our cruise.
Thanks to Daniel and Tristan Fox, and Space2Sea for an unforgettable experience.
-JB
His life story is here: https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=stephen%20wiltshire&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#ebo=0