Blog Posts
November 19, 2014
Don’t forget the camera—and your travel insurance!
It’s pretty easy to talk yourself out of buying travel insurance, especially when you’ve just spent a substantial amount of money on travel. When I was a young traveler, I never gave it a second thought. Now though, with a longtime career in travel under my belt—and after a few unavoidable travel pitfalls and 20/20…
November 24, 2014
Antarctica: The Landscape of the Frozen Continent
By: Noemi Gamel I never planned to go to Antarctica. Going there was never on my bucket list and I thought setting foot on Antarctica was as likely for me as setting foot on the moon. So you can imagine my surprise when I found myself on a boat across the violent Drake Passage on…
Serendipity at the End of the World
By: Noemi Gamel I have previously posted that many of our most amazing experiences during this round the world trip have happened serendipitously. Well, we had another such moment when visiting Ushuaia, Argentina, the southern-most city in the world. We did the usual tourist attractions in Ushuaia such as exploring the beautiful forests of the…
Glaciers: Impressive, Dynamic, Blue Giants
By: Noemi Gamel I remember learning about glaciers in my fourth grade science class. I thought it was cool that they were so big and crushed mountains. Unfortunately, glaciers are hard to find in Texas, so I was never able to fully appreciate their majesty. Fast forward a few decades. I find myself in El…
Glacial Lakes
By: Beth O’Donnell You know that gorgeous green-blue color of the lakes in all the pictures from the Canadian Rockies? It is even MORE beautiful in person! And the color comes from the sediment of the glaciers, called “glacier flour”. What happens is glacial erosion causes tiny particles of bedrock to enter the meltwater (water…