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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Monday, November 16, 2009

Welcome Dinner tonight...

The event was the Lindblad National Geographic Dinner held in the Salon Aysen ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in Santiago. While I have no photos of the dinner maybe you can visualize and mentally taste it! It WAS delicious:

Mushroom strudel with asparagus cream sauce
Fish with zucchini, grilled polenta and olives sauce with tomato
Brownie with dry apricot ice cream and mint sauce
Coffee, Tea, or various fruit drinks
Petit Fours

Everyone was very tired, and after eating that I am sure most of them fell asleep...well other than for yours truly who is still up pecking away at the moment. We have a wakeup call at 5:45 on Tuesday, breakfast for those who want it, and at 6:15 start loading buses for our drive to the airport and connect for a 9 AM flight to Ushuaia. It is a four hour flight, and I am looking forward to flying over the Andes and of course taking photos of their snow capped peaks!
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