January 22, 2010
Visiting the World’s Northernmost Settlement of Ny-Alesund
My final stop on my Hurtigruten expedition around the Arctic Circle last summer was the world’s northernmost settlement: Ny-Alesund, at...
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September 18, 2009
Exploring Barentsburg, Svalbard’s Russian Mining Town
Our first stop on my expedition trip around the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle was an eerie one indeed. A permanent Russian...
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August 24, 2009
Dog Sledding in Longyearbyen — Without the Snow?
After a very long trip from San Francisco to Chicago to Sweden to Norway, I finally arrived in Oslo, where I spent the entire day sleeping off...
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August 21, 2009
Exploring Geirangerfjorden, Norway’s Stunning Fjords
Our seven-hour drive from Oslo to Geirangerfjorden was so beautiful—sunny and 75 degrees, not a cloud in the sky—that we had high hopes...
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August 12, 2009
Friendship Without Borders: Making Friends on the Road
Some people you’re destined to befriend; fate makes your meeting simply inevitable, wouldn’t have it any other way. For me, Ellen...
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August 4, 2009
Taking a Polar Plunge in the Arctic Ocean
Sometimes, I’m a little crazy. But then you knew that already; that’s why you keep coming back time and time again, right?...
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