The Hunt for Yellow October
I promise, I am not making any of this up. Because I couldn’t make this sort of thing up: we’ve broken off our original deployment plan to hunt down and […]
It’s Science Time!
Yesterday? Yesterday morning was a slow gray haze of nausea, soda crackers, naps and waking thinking, briefly and quite mistakenly, that I was feeling better. I mean, the weather wasn’t […]
And So We Meet Again
I’d really hoped that the Promethazine was going to get me through it. I’d hoped, at least, that we’d make it to open sea. But we hadn’t even rounded the […]
Terra Incognita
An enormous white cross on the distant mountaintop marks the southernmost point of the continent proper, where the spine of the Andes subsides and finally succumbs to the Southern Ocean. […]
Showtime!
Punta Arenas revisited had lost none of the charm it held in my imagination. The elegant but practical and understated architecture of a Latin outpost, the stunning seascape, and the […]
Auspicious Beginnings
I’m not a believer in auspicious beginnings. I mean, I like it when things go smoothly, but it always puts me on my guard. If anything, a difficult start comforts […]
Southbound Again
“Southbound again – don’t know if I’m going or leaving home…” -Dire Straits They say that you go to Antarctica the first time because you’re curious; you go the second […]
Homecoming, Briefly
The house is full of teenagers again this weekend. M is back for the Thanksgiving weekend, and in her wake, the usual crowd of LARP teenagers have tumbled into each […]
Manitou Springs Detour
A spin of my favorite travel tool, the serendipifier, has found me this afternoon in Manitou Springs, for only the second time in probably 40 years. The previous time was […]
Into the League of Extraordinary Badasses
At six thirty a.m. in the lobby of the Staybridge Inn, it’s not hard to figure out who your peeps are. Half the folks shuffling through the featureless, beige breakfast […]
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