Please join me on the longest trip of my life! This epic journey will cover over 22,000 miles and explore the islands of the Antarctic and the Antarctic Peninsula, then continue to South Georgia Island, onto the Falkland Islands, and back to Santiago, Chile. From there we travel westward to Easter Island about 2300 miles west of Santiago, far out into the Pacific Ocean, and then finally one month after starting the trip, I will return home to Ames, Iowa.

What follows is an tentative itinerary, maps, and various links for cities, islands, hotels, the ship I am on, as well as various other travel related information. Once the journey begins I will attempt to give blog updates when I can, depending on how reliable and expensive the satellite internet connection on the ship proves to be. If I am able I will include some photos along the way, of a smaller size to help you see what I am seeing. The web is filled with information, stories, and photos of all the places I am visiting, by just "Googling" a place such as Deception Island, you can see where and what it is. If you have a burning question and know my email address you can send it to me, and I will check as I have time, and most likely respond here in this blog.


The photo on the masthead, obviously is not mine (not yet anyway)! It was taken on the island of South Georgia, which is about a thousand miles south east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. We will spend three days in South Georgia capturing images like the one above, which shows thousands of King Penguins. These were the stars of the popular movie, "March of the Penguins," which you may have seen. Share and enjoy the expedition with me, when you are able.


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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Waiting in Miami...

After two very nice flights from Des Moines to Chicago, and then to Miami, I am now here, and officialy checked in all legal and proper for my overnight flight to Santiago. It is now nearly 5:30 here EST, and my LAN airlines flight leaves at 8:30. I plan to get a few of the Zzzzzzzs I have missed out on, the last few days, but still eat dinner, and a light breakfast on Tuesday morning before we land. We arrive there about 6:00 AM and will go directly to our hotel to rest, shower, and take it easy for a few hours. In the afternoon we have a city tour of some kind, and a welcome dinner in the early evening. After an early breakfast Tuesday morning we get on our chartered LAN flight to Usuhaia, Argentina that will take about 2-3 hours. We have a luncheon cruise on a catamaran kind of boat down a long stretch of water going from Usushia out into the ocean below Argentina. The 150 mile long natural water way is called the Beagle Channel (no I don't know why! Early that evening we get on our ship the National Geographic Explorer and away we go! There have been no Neal Armstrong sightings yet, but he must be here in this airport somewhere! Time to post this before battery gives out. More later I hope!
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