Return to US

We made it!! Holy cow it was an amazing trip and lived up to the last 10 yrs of my wishing and saving for it. Our activities ran from communing w/penguins/seals, & whales, to drinking russian vodka @ Ukrainian polar station, to a Polar Plunge! to snowshoeing & hiking on ice shelves & mountains, to zodiac rides around glaciers, to a ride on the "train at the end of the world", and more to follow!

SO close!

I am so close to a dream of mine, I can taste it!!

Pam and I are flying to Ushuaia, Argentina, via  LA and Buenos Aires. We will switch not only planes but airports also. We have 8 hrs to do so but we've been warned that it's not as easy as it sounds. From there we fly to the end of the world: Ushuaia, aka Tierra del Fuego, "land of fire". We will spend 3 nights in Ushuaia and do the tourist thing, including the "train at the end of the world" (dunh dunh duhhh)!

On Thanksgiving we board our ship w/115 other crazy people for 9 days & 2 ports on the continent of Antarctica.

We will kayak, hike, camp out, and maybe even take the "polar plunge"! I've just wanted to pet a penguin for as long as I can remember - cant tell you why.

Anyway, now that I've got this (adding photos to) blog thing on pam's tablet, I promise to share the trip w/you, as real time as I can get. I hope you enjoy it too!

Needed to test if I could move photos from my schnazzy camera to Pam's tablet, to take to Antrctica/Argentina: if you can see the photo below of the view from Pam's back door, then it worked - YaY! Now that I got that done, more will follow soon!

Heading out again soon - Oct/Nov/Dec 2014

Hello all and welcome back! I'm embarking on another ROAD TRIP and you are invited to share the way. I'm leaving in a couple days for a visit w/Elsie the loan resident of Monowi, NE., a west coast tour, a week at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in UT, Vegas, Big Bear, San Diego, Oregon, Idaho, and then on to ANTARCTICA/Argentina. The So Pole thing has been a dream of mine for YEARS! Strap yourselves in...