Vanuatu and Melanesia 2012
Before boarding the fine ship The World to go on the Melanesian Expedition, I decided to spend a week in New Zealand catching up with family and friends. My flight was taking me via Auckland, NZ, so it seemed like…
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Uganda Trip 20 February – 10 March 2012
I had the most amazing trip in beautiful Uganda. I will write more here later but let me start with sharing photos. I took a total of 4181 and I have attempted to make a manageable selection of the best.…
Maiden Trip of our new vacation home.
We went to Pinnacles National Monument to test our new ‘vacation home’: rooftent + annex + awning. Sterlin with Tent
Mt. Kilimanjaro – 20-31 January 2012
In 2003 Stephen and I went to Kilimanjaro. Although I did enjoy the hiking I never made it to the summit then. Naturally Stephen did. Ever since then I’ve had this little niggling in the back of my mind –…
Mt Kosciuszko
On Friday November 18 we boarded a plane to Melbourne where we landed on Sunday November 20th. We stayed 2 nights with our friends Patty and Jono and their 3 daughters in Aspendale. Very nice to catch up! Two days…
Norway
On June 20th, one day later than planned due to our flights from Djibouti to London being cancelled on account of the volcanic eruption, Stephen and I boarded The World in Aalesund, Norway for a cruise through the Norwegian fjords…
7lows in Djibouti
On June 12, 2011, Stephen and I flew from London to Djibouti City for a 6 day adventure. Upon arrival on June 13 we stayed the first night in the lovely Kempinski Hotel before going on a 3 day tour…
Death Valley
On Friday, May 27, we set off from Emeryville around 3:45pm to start our Memorial Day weekend trip to Death Valley. We’d only decided this just over a week before and were lucky to still find accommodation in Death Valley…
Along Hwy 1 to Santa Cruz.
We went on a day trip along the beautiful coastal Hwy 1 from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. Photos
The end of an amazing adventure
I arrived back home on February 8 and have been re-adjusting to life in the real world this past week! A quick trip to Yosemite over the weekend helped 🙂 It has been the most amazing adventure with lots of…
Arrived in Valparaíso
It was brought to my attention that it had been a while since I’d updated this blog so let me remedy that now! Been far too busy having a good time 🙂 On the ‘at sea’ days I am usually…
Chilean Fjords
Monday, January 24, 2011 January 22nd was the official end of our trip to South Georgia and Antarctica. What an amazing experience that was! Very hard to describe the scope of what we saw in words. Stephen left The World…
Cape Horn
Thursday, January 20, 2011 Stephen gave a well attended and well received presentation about his 2009 Mt Everest Expedition in the morning. Around noon we arrived at Cape Horn and the expedition team decided that the weather was favorable to…
London and Belgium – Thanksgiving Week 2010.
We went to London and Belgium for Thanksgiving Week; the good thing was that Stephen only had to take 3 days off to get the whole week. We left on Friday, Nov 19 and flew back home on Saturday the…
Bermuda
Kristin left NY on the afternoon of October 12th (see previous post); I checked into the Newark Airport Hilton that evening, where I was was joined by Stephen early the next morning. He’d just flown in on the red-eye from…