NORWAY | Friday, 22 Oct 2010 | Views [461]
It was a good thing that the weather was nice for the first half of the trip because by the second week the weather had turned for the worse. It was hard to make landings due to the rough water, so we had some days just on board the ship and I didn’t ... Read more >
NORWAY | Sunday, 17 Oct 2010 | Views [652]
We are at the halfway mark of our trip. The weather has been remarkably cooperative so far and I have my fingers crossed that it stays that way. Aside from some high swells on some nights while sailing, the water has been calm especially where we ... Read more >
NORWAY | Monday, 11 Oct 2010 | Views [625]
We have been on the boat for two days and already we have seen the Northern Lights and shooting stars. The boat is a 120 ft schooner which is surprisingly roomy for twenty artists and crew. Our cabins are probably about 100 square feet shared by ... Read more >
NORWAY | Saturday, 9 Oct 2010 | Views [515]
We spent the first couple of days in the Arctic at the lodge meeting each other, getting last minute supplies rand touring the town. Longyearbyen is a Norwegian mining town and is the northernmost town with more than 1000 people. There are surrounding ... Read more >
NORWAY | Thursday, 7 Oct 2010 | Views [399]
I am currently in Longyearbyen, Svalbard which is north or Norway. Its an old mining town, and the weather is grey and rainy. I am staying a lodge for the next couple of days while getting over jet lag and adjusting to the cold weather. In a ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009 | Views [864]
I wasn’t expecting to update a travel journal several weeks after returning home. After all, I’m not travelling anymore. But since a bit of the jungle hitched a ride home with me, another post seemed appropriate. After taking it easy in Cusco for a ... Read more >
PERU | Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 | Views [884] | Comments [1]
...the bad news is, this is still going to hurt. When you hear these words from a Peruvian doctor you know things aren’t exactly going according to plan. I arrived in Cusco last Friday, travelling with my friend Meredith, who I met at the research ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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PERU | Thursday, 5 Mar 2009 | Views [565] | Comments [3]
Today I left the research station and returned to Puerto Maldonado. By the time I had left the research station, life had evolved into a fairly regular routine. We awoke each morning at 6 for breakfast before the researchers headed out to the ... Read more >
PERU | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [692] | Comments [10]
My stay in the Amazon is halfway over. There are some things that I will not miss when I leave here. I will not miss cold showers or only having one location in the entire station where I can get drinking water. I will not miss the beaurocratic snafu ... Read more >
PERU | Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 | Views [819] | Comments [9]
Buenos Dias from the Amazon! I am staying in CICRA, a research station on the Los Amigos river in Peru. To get here I took several flights to arrive at Puerto Maldonado in southern Peru . Then I took a taxi to Laborinto an hour drive up the river. There ... Read more >
