Some days it might feel like you’re just keeping your head above water – a bit like the hooded seal in the picture above, for example. Every day, we have to tackle the myriad complexities that modern life throws at us: emails, text messages, phone calls, meetings (many of which probably could have been emails), […]
Our month of travel is coming to a close after a proper tour of the western and northern coast of the British Isles. See what a few weeks in Britain will do for you? It will have one walking on the left, speaking the King’s English and watching British telly on Netflix, apparently. Will it […]
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. – Confucious Bryan Holliday, one of the naturalists on our recent journey to Svalbard, referenced this quote over dinner and it resonated with me. I thought that I would start with this as it has been on my mind a […]
In February, we went a bit off the beaten path to visit French Polynesia. We booked the trip last July, actually, as a mid-winter jaunt away from the cold of Pittsburgh. At the time, we had no idea that it would be the first of several trips in 2025 that we now have on the […]
Roald Amundsen took almost three years to find and sail the Northwest Passage in the early 1900s, we took three weeks to do it in 2024. We set out from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland on July 24th aboard the National Geographic Resolution for Nome, Alaska destined to cross the Canadian Archipelago along the way. It was a […]