We woke up to the sound of being inside a super large ice maker set on “crush.” One look outside showed that a flotilla of what Fede calls “bergy bergs” (as opposed to the larger “ice bergs”) had settled all around the Ocean Tramp. We also saw our first cruise ship of the trip, unloading…
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Penguin Pandemonium 12/20
It wasn’t supposed to be a long sail today, but we were on the Ocean Tramp for seven hours. Again, time passes so quickly here at the end of the world that it didn’t seem that long. About halfway through our travels for the day, it started to snow. Big, fat wet flakes that actually…
Ready to Launch and The Dreaded Drake
I’m being a spoiler, but I did return alive from a month in Antarctica and Argentina. I was not eaten by a Leopard Seal, or crushed by an iceberg or dehydrated to death by seasickness (although that was touch and go for a few days). I wrote a half-dozen posts while at sea on the…
Argentina Before Antarctica
As far as launching pads go, Buenos Aires is about as good as it gets. Heike and I chose to spend a couple of days in the warm (hot), sunny part of Argentina before heading south to get on the Ocean Tramp. Our flight was good, even though it was on the dreaded United. Business…
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
Australia has been number one on my list of places to go since I ticked Egypt off a few years ago. I’d dinked around, waiting for a big chunk of time to present itself, since everyone says you can’t “do” the country in less than a month. So I waited. And now, I can’t go…
Bolivia!
This photo pretty much captures my impression of Bolivia, after spending a short, but long week there. Breathtakingly beautiful, but upon closer inspection, it doesn’t make a ton of sense. Worlds colliding. I used that phrase more than a few times last week. For a country that is expecting its biggest tourism numbers ever this…