Laguna del Carbón: Tick!!!!
Yes!!!! We made it to the lowest point in South America!!! We set out early (enough) from El Calafate and started off on Ruta 9, a good gravel road. We really did feel like being away from it all; in…
Perito Moreno Glacier
Wonderful day visiting Perito Moreno glacier. Fantastic! Imagine a 50m high, 5km wide glacier slowly crawling and calving its way into Lago Argentino. We walked around the various observation points in the late morning and took the obligatory boat ride…
Arrived in El Calafate
After 2.5 interesting (and hot and humid) days in Buenos Aires, we got up at 4 am this morning to catch our 6:40am flight to Rio Gallegos. Got to the regional airport without hassles, got checked-in (and paid our reasonable…
Enjoying Buenos Aires
Had a lovely day yesterday walking about the city. The streets were quiet and hot. We found the high-end shopping district, fortunately (or unfortunately) they were all closed, being Christmas day. Today we visit the Recoleta Cemetery, San Telmo and…
Arrived in Argentina
After a long but uneventful flight we arrived in Argentina. Today we are just relaxing and enjoying the warm weather. Maybe it is a little too warm here. Caroline conspired to leave the only key to the locks of our…
Antarctica 2010 – Getting Ready to Leave
Caroline is in the middle of packing everything for our trip South. I am helping with lots of good advice and keeping out of her hair. Tomorrow we board the flight to Houston where we connect for the long flight…
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…
New York, NY.
I spent a lovely long weekend in New York with Kristin and Alison. This was Kristin’s and mine first weekend away together since she had Viggo. We stayed with Alison on The World. It was all about catching up and…
Brokeoff Mt and Ponderosa Way
Labor Day long weekend: hiking, 4WD and Sacramento. We went back to Lassen Volcanic Nat’l Park to knock of Brokeoff Mt. which is the high point of Tehama County, CA. There are 58 counties in California, with 56 high points…
Lassen Peak and Shasta Bally Trail
Here are some photos of a nice weekend away. On Saturday we visited Lassen National Park. We drove around the Park and hiked to the top of Lassen Peak. Sunday we went 4WD’ing in the vicinity of Whiskeytown Lake. We…
The photos.
Wow! What a trip! What a rush! I left home in San Francisco on July 30th, visited 8 countries in just under 6 weeks (I must be turning into a good American!) and arrived back home on August 6th. Naturally…
Success on Mt. Elbrus
Sorry for the delay in posting, but Internet is not that reliable here in Russia. The good news is that I successfully summited the highest peak in Europe, being Mt. Elbrus at 5,642 meters. Today I spent the day touring…
Aug 5: From Tel Aviv airport
What a rush this trip has been! And it’s coming to an end. Flying to London today where I’ll overnight at the LHR Hilton to then catch my flight home to San Francisco tomorrow. On Tuesday, Aug 3, Hilde en…
Aug 2: Back in Jerusalem
Petra. Words do not do it justice. It really was an ‘Indiana Jones moment’!!! Absolutely amazing!!!! The long narrow canyon (Siq) leading to the Treasury (that Indy facade carved in the rocks)… and much, much more!!!!We were lucky with the…