Into the Caldera
So I missed a bit there because, halfway through the Drake Passage northbound, I stopped taking my seasickness meds. Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, but don’t tell […]
So I missed a bit there because, halfway through the Drake Passage northbound, I stopped taking my seasickness meds. Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, but don’t tell […]
So yeah, we kind of dropped off the face of the earth there for a while. Or at least the internet. But also the face of the earth, a bit. […]
So hey – we’re here! I mean, it’s a big “here,” but last night we got to touch toe to mainland rock to plant the figurative flag. The literal flag […]
“There are three kinds of people – those dead, those alive, and those at sea.” —Anacharsis, 6th century B.C.E. It’s a long way down to get here. Never mind the two-plus […]
[Part Three, in which a miracle occurs\h\h\h\h\h\h\David and Devon actually catch that series of flights, sit a butt-numbing number of hours in the seats of different airliners, and pop out […]
Plan A had us spending Friday night in the luxury of Row 9 of American Airlines Flight 953, sipping an aperitif prior to settling in for the night in our […]
I’m a little shocked at the trepidation with which I am approaching this trip. It’s, you know, just another “trip of a lifetime” coming on the heels of our last […]
An hour short of Dallas, I’ve already been on, or rather over the road for 21 hours. Another eight before I’m done for the day, but the strange, albeit understandable, […]
Just a short note here, so as not to keep everyone wondering: we made it to the ship about as uneventfully as could be imagined. A small mountain of paperwork […]
The plan was that within a few hours of now, I’d be settling in behind my old desk below deck on the icebreaker, down at the end of Muelle Prat […]