One way I like to look at the world is to draw a box with four points on the most north, south, east and west point I’ve ever traveled to. Before 2025, my record for most south was the town of Stilbaai in South Africa, which is 34.4°S – which I visited in 2003. In […]

After our epic first day of landings – we had a karaoke contest, lead by the legendary barkeeper, Fabian. As an intro, he took the first two songs, and intentionally did them terribly to make everyone more comfortable. I suspect he would have a great voice if he was trying – but we all knew […]

After breakfast, the ship had come to a stop. We watched and waited with great anticipation as we saw the Zodiac with the guides head out to Half Moon Island, a small island in the South Shetland Islands, that would hopefully be our first landing of the trip. Nothing is guaranteed in Antarctica – you […]