24 Dec Update 7 Antarctica – Ho Ho Ho
It’s during this special time each year when I take time out to reflect. I reflect and look back on where I was a year ago - what I was doing and where I was in the world with my ever-changing...
16 Dec Week 6 Antarctica – Special Time of the Year
It’s a week before Christmas, can we all believe it. Where did this year go? I can’t be further away from any festivities if I tried but here I am. I can just imagine all the last-minute shopping - for the latest...
09 Dec Week 5 Antarctica – Riding the Wave of Life
Just like living life anywhere in the world, here too we ride the wave of life. The amazing, then the bitterly awful cold, then the amazing again and between is the mundane. The Groundhog days. There are the days when I question...
02 Dec Week 4 Antarctica – Sounds of Silence
It’s been one month living on the ice. I am somewhere between 71 and 73 degrees latitude. I have reached halfway. One more month to go. It’s been a month since I last saw the dark night sky, the moon, and stars; Since...
25 Nov Week 3 Antarctica – Adapting
It’s amazing how us living beings adapt to any new surroundings. We watch, we learn, we adapt and improve. To think when we arrived at our second camping spot, there was nothing here, just blue ice and now it’s become our little...
18 Nov Week 2 Antarctica – Life on the Ice
It’s been two weeks living on the Antarctic ice. I am not sure if the time has gone fast or slow as time doesn’t really exist here. No darkness nor signs of a new day. It’s either sunny and freezing or grey and...
11 Nov Week One Antarctica – Touching Base
*** FIRST UPDATE FROM ANTARCTICA *** ________________________________ It’s been over a week on the Ice and it’s taken all this time to adjust to life here. Everything is so surreal. It feels like I am on another planet. I am at a Latitude of...
