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In DC for the Inauguration
All, Got invited to attend the inauguration - Thank you, Congressman Kelly 🙂 Got down there Monday morning and it was cold. So cold that they decided to move all the events indoors, so instead of 250,000 guests watching it, only a few hundred got in, and we just...
Antarctic Cruise: Final Captain’s Log
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...
Antarctic Cruise: Orcas!
At the very beginning of this cruise, the captain and crew leaders made one thing very clear to all of the passengers: IN ANTARCTICA, THE WEATHER HAS THE FINAL SAY! They told us to understand that, accept it, and be patient/flexible. Well, the day we could not get to...
Update From Antarctica
Yesterday we were supposed to visit the Ukrainian Research Station here in Antarctica, but as always, the weather rules the roost here. 15-20' waves and very low visibility forced the captain to take shelter for the day instead. Though disappointed (but nothing you...
Antarctic Cruise: Polar Plunge
Christmas Day, we took a Zodiac ride around a natural harbor where we saw thousands of penguins and a few Antarctic Cormorants (black and white birds that look very much like penguins, only they CAN fly) and an elephant seal (big and scary, though on land they look so...
Space2Sea Antarctic Cruise -Ashore!
Deception Island is an active volcano and one of the only places in the world where ships can sail directly into the flooded caldera through a narrow entrance called Neptune's Bellows. The island's caldera was formed by a massive volcanic eruption thousands of years...
Reaching Antarctica
All, we made it to Antarctica! Tons of pics to share, so here they are. Our ship breaking through the ice Here we are actually on the ice Tens of thousands of these guys around One surprise is that most of the icebergs look like this one rather than the ones you...
It All Depends on Your Point of View
Getting to Antarctica today. Yesterday we took a Zodiac ride around Elephant Island, the place where Ernest Shackleton’s crew took refuge for the 4 months or so it took for Shackleton and Worsley to navigate a lifeboat 800 miles in some of the roughest seas on earth...
Drake’s Passage
The first couple of days onboard has us navigating Drake's Passage, the way to Antarctica. I think it's about 500 miles, and since it is the place where the Pacific Ocean runs into the Atlantic Ocean around Cape Horn (the southern tip of the Americas), it can be rough...
It’s a Long Road to Tipperary
'It's a Long Way to Tipperary.' I'm not sure why that old song popped into my head. Probably because so far, just getting to the ship to start that cruise has been a 36-hour journey. Somehow, I had not calculated for that. But…it’s a long way to Tipperary (Ushuaia)....