“Well, your disease is stable. In a couple of places, we could say there’s a small amount of shrinkage.” Everyone stares at everyone until I say, “Well, that complicates things doesn’t it?” I’d added on one more month of the CRLX101 trial, just to keep that option open after my last CT scan showed growth,…
Travel
Polarbearland
You know when you talk about something you want to do for years and years, and then when you are finally on the brink of doing it, you’re slightly apprehensive that you may have overbuilt expectations? Yeah, that didn’t happen. The Arctic was everything I hoped it would be. My brother, Al, sister-in-law, Sheryl, and…
Elephantastic (Part two!)
I don’t know what it is about elephants that makes me love them so much. I love that they are huge and gorgeous, that they live in families and are smart, and that well, they’re just kind of magical. I was super excited to try to see them during our visit to Thailand, but encounters…
20 Days in Southeast Asia… or Noodles and Rice… AND ELEPHANTS (Part One)
The locals say Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia don’t see a huge number of American visitors because it’s such a beast of a trip to get there. My best Orlando pal, Mike, and I made the 26+ hour journey and somewhat miraculously met up within minutes at the Phuket Airport. When we got to our lovely…
Homeward Bound 1/8
The rest of our Antartica adventure was a blur of white and blue and black, ice and snow and water, penguins and seals and soaring, graceful Albatross (Albatrosses?). There was another game of Kubb, this time in snow, and lots of sailing. On January third, it was time to start the long trek home. We…
It was a Very Good Year 1/1/17
I liked 2016. I liked it very much. I love to travel more than just about anything, and as I write, I am sailing on the Ocean Tramp toward Port Lockroy and the Penguin Post Office. We’ve been sailing through the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica for the last three weeks, since leaving Ushuaia, Argentina….