March of the Penguins-ky

Feb 14, 2010

As the departure date of our amazing adventure to Antarctica has loomed closer and closer, the looks, questions, dazement and amazement from people who love to armchair my travels has taken on new meaning. The questions like , “Antarctica? Why are you going? What will you see?” were more common than I had expected.

To me and our 30 passengers embarking on this truly amazing journey, the idea of traveling to Antarctica is merely the next step on a journey of journeys; a quest to see and do the world like few ever do. We are-at this writing-a mere 12 hours away from embarkation to our Antarctica bound cruise ship. I write this from our “staging” area of Buenos Aires; the arrival of all 31 passengers in tact, save for two pieces of missing luggage ( a miraculous feat given the monster weather we were suffering from in the midwest, northeast and south over the last week) . Over the course of the next 10 days, I will seek and post a collection of pictures and experiences “from the front” as we journey to the bottom of the world. And, I shall answer those questions of why we are going and what we will see. It’ll be amazing…you’ll see.
Stay tuned….