Across the tundra
After a 14 hour drive on non-roads across the tundra, we found them. The animals and the people who look after them. Our home for the next little while. Fall 2017. Chukotka, Russia. Photo Eric Guth.
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Home at the bottom of the world
Down at the bottom of the world, we would never survive without her. A home away from home in Antarctic waters. Photo Eric Guth
New year, new ideas
Cleaning and culling my Arctic library in prep for some big time writing time this winter. ‘Arctic Dreams’ is so tattered! Get a new copy or keep this one? (It has traveled in a backpack across the tundra but is so broken now it is hard to read. Dilemma.) These uppik will keep me company…
Home away from home
She’s a home away from home for many of us, and as I look out the snowy windows here in Canada tonight, part of me is still with her. For those of you working on board right now, whether you ever read this or not, I am thinking of you, the ice, that gorgeous evening…
The meaning of home
It has been a long time since I have been at home, long enough to wonder what home really means. I know it means love, comfort, and familiarity, but if I include beauty, diversity, and a way to find newness in every day, then perhaps Antarctica has become–in some tiny way–part of my home. Photo…
Sweetness of home
I just got home to Ottawa from New York City, and while the view out the plane window wasn’t quite like this (this is East Greenland), I was reminded of both the beauty of the earth from above and the sweetness of coming home. We’re heading north again very soon, so these few days of…
Mothership
Being in Antarctica is the closest I’ll ever come to visiting another planet. We survive only because of the comfort and provisions of our mothership (and let’s face it, we do more than survive!), but even she looks out of place here sometimes. Heading north means heading home. #meetthesouth #meetthenorth #lindbladexpeditions #drakepassage #antarctica #antarcticambassadors…
Cherish connections
Saturday night at the pub. Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Note the mining theme for a mining town. One of those nights you might look back on later and realize it marked the beginning of a new friendship. Those first moments with a new buddy are easily forgotten until weeks later when the initial nervous exchanges are over…