Furthest North
Our Journey will take us half around the world, but today is likely to be the furthest point North we will go. The ship made it to North 80° 24′ 13.23″, East 52° 4′ 16.82″ before turning around and heading South…
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Franz Josef Land
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 After a day at sea we arrived at Franz Josef Land. Look it up. We were far north on the map, very far north actually. Never even thought about getting here. But then again… this was…
Ice Cruising, Barents Sea
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Spent the day cruising from Novaya Zemlya to Franz Josef Land in search of wildlife. We found Beluga Whales, mum and baby.
Novaya Zemlya
Monday, June 10, 2013 Monday, June 10th Morning Activities Today we truly ventured north. We woke very early to discover the ship had discovered ice. Ice conditions prevented a landing at the abandoned Soviet research base. Instead the captain took…
Cape Kanin
Saturday, June 8, 2013 Cape Kanin is the last outpost of the White Sea and mainland Russia before we head north into the Barents Sea. We did a little Tundra hiking before our 2 day sea voyage to the next destination.
Chapoma and Pyalitsa Rivers
Chapoma River If you believe the guides, apparently we were the first westerners to visit this Chapoma River village. We saw first hand how hard life is in these remote lands. There is no wharf for large boats to land…
Solovetsky Island and Monastery
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 We visited Solovetsky Island and Monastery on a cold summer’s day. This spiritual home to the Russian Orthodox Church was the greatest citadel of the church in the far north until it was turned into a…
Arkhangelsk
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Heading to the White Sea
Sunday to Tuesday, June 2-4, 2013 We left Kirkenes, Norway, at 6:30pm on June 2nd and arrived in Arkhangelsk, some 38 hours later on June 4th. Since this was The World’s first port-of-call in Russia on this trip, it took…
Kirkenes
Sunday, June 2, 2013 We docked for the day in the quiet town of Kirkenes. Since there was not much going on here, being Sunday didn’t help either, we decided to do a 15km / 10m bike trip to the…
Northern most point in Europe
Saturday, June 1, 2013 Today we sailed past Hammerfest which claims to be the northern most city in the world. This claim is in dispute with Honningsvåg which is further North but maybe is not a city. Barrow in Alaska which…
Tromsø
Thursday, May 30, 2013 Caroline and I reunited in Oslo just as we boarded the 90 minute flight to Tromsø. Caroline was coming from Belgium and I from Los Angeles. After 1 month apart it was certainly good to see…
Los Angeles
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Today Sterlin got dropped off at Schumacher Cargo and Logistics for shipping to Australia. The process was extremely easy and very reasonably priced at $1,850. In preparation of arrival into Sydney, Sterlin underwent a serious cleaning…
Caroline Leaves for Europe
Monday, April 29, 2014 The adventure starts with Caroline heading out from San Francisco airport to London. Only 4 bags!
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