One of the best things about writing something like this is hearing from so many friends.  I really appreciate hearing from you and hope that these emails will continue to be of interest.  For those of you who missed any of the first reports and would like to see them, they all can be […]

Hello from 400 miles north of Dawson Creek, the official “mile one” of the Alaska Highway.  Today we entered into the Canadian Rockies.  And it is a good thing that we did.  The first 400 miles – and the additional 700 or so miles from Sumas, Washington where we crossed into Canada, – was interesting, […]

Dear Friends and Family: The Alaska Highway – familiarly referred to as the ALCAN – is a roughly 1500 mile long road beginning in Dawson Creek in British Columbia and ending Alaska.  We always thought “we should try that out someday.”  And then we thought “when is someday?”  So starting on July 29, we – […]

VENICE, ITALY  — NEXT STOP, CROATIA What do you think of when someone mentions “Croatia”?  Although Croatia is an increasingly popular international travel destination, that is a recent phenomenon.  I suspect that many of you, like me, really have no idea at all about what Croatia is like.  So I thought it might be of interest to […]

NEXT STOP – CROATIA   What do you think of when someone mentions “Croatia”?  Although Croatia is an increasingly popular international travel destination, that is a recent phenomenon and I suspect that many of you are like me – and really have no idea at all about what Croatia is like.  So I thought it […]

It has been just over one year since we moved to Bend, Oregon.  It seems as though we have barely been able to scratch the surface in our efforts to visit the beautiful Northwest.  But, upon reflection at the end of the year, we were fortunate enough to visit some pretty amazing places in just […]

I am back on land.  The sensation of feeling like I am still on a boat has faded away, and I am back in the world of the internet, instant (and mainly, bad) news.  I no longer in a “remote” part of the world. And one of the lessons for me of this trip was […]

After leaving the spectacular iceberg graveyard at Ciero Cove, the ship moved down Gerlache Strait to Cuverville in the spectacularly picturesque Gerlache Strait. Cuverville is the site of a huge Gentoo penguin colony. We couldn’t get on land because there was too much snow but the view of the gentoos from the zodiacs was probably […]

                      [This is the first of several entries about stops along the Antarctic Peninsula. Other entries will be posted soon.) Our visit to the Antarctic Sound was the silver lining of having to leave South Georgia Island one day early because of the storm that […]

As I noted in the previous entry, we had to leave South Georgia Island a day early to avoid a big and dangerous storm that might have made it impossible to sail to Antarctica. As we headed south, we started seeing more and more icebergs. This was especially true as we crossed through the current […]