My Tales Abroad

Today I'm a stranger in my own body,

Today shit is getting real.

Turns out rush hour traffic on the downtown connector is a universal experience,

Despite my protests that I feel great to go on

After deplaning the flying glass bubble

The journey to Everest National Park starts out with patience and managing expectations

Most people come to Everest National Park just for base camp, which is the worst

Maybe it’s slightly offensive to call one of the largest glaciers in the world little,

I spent a long time staring at this blank screen.

There’s always a hero and a villain. The heroes die early, since they probably starved to death trying to be the nice guy.

On this episode of how the other half lives, two of the landing sites were on abandoned research bases.

After my first encounter with a Weddel seal, my photo roll looked something like this cartoon the resident artist onboard drew up.

I was hanging out on the bridge, my favorite part of the ship, when we were cruising out of the Lemaire channel to our next landing at Port Charcot.

The beloved children’s book got quite a few things wrong about penguins.

An interesting thought experiment would be to dig into why a set of people, all reasonably if not above average successful, traveled thousands of mile

How to get to Antarctica?

Day 4: Cabane de Mont Fort to Cabane de Parafleuri ( Map ) It started out innocently enough. The day’s agenda was expected to be one of the most spectacu

Rainbow mountain. Sounds like sunshine and warmth, right? Not always.