Tag: travel journal
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Crabs!
This post is dedicated to the crabs of Palmyra Atoll…and my ice friend, Ben Goldberg, who LOVES crabs. They are everywhere here, crabs, not Bens. Fiddlers, Hermits, Coconut; all sorts and all sizes and they have the right of way on station. People fall off of their bikes to avoid them. I am not exaggerating…
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Rainy Atoll Arrival
Please.slow.down.time. Agh! It’s been two weeks since my last post. My goal is to make weekly posts, but it’s no easy feat. I thought writing would be a rainy day activity, but the rain has been mostly at night, so that doesn’t work! Today marks a month since I arrived in paradise. A whole month…
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Plane Day!
Who needs sleep? For my final night of climate controlled sleep for the next three-and-a-half months, I barely slept. To be expected-adventure awaits! The program manager, Matt, picked my new cohort, Marsha, and I up at 7AM. I was running on straight adrenaline…and coffee. First we stopped at The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) storage unit, where…
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Beginning of the Third In-between
Christchurch to Honolulu I left Christchurch and two flights and eighteen-hours later I arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii. One great flight-Christchurch to Sydney where I had the aisle emergency exit seat with an empty seat next to me, coveted. The nine hours from Sydney to Honolulu was a yucky flight though. When I picked my (aisle)…
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Winter’s End & Straight Into Summer!
Hi Friends! I’m writing from my hotel room in Christchurch-I’m a lucky gal to be here too! WinFly Flights Let me start by saying that trying to land a plane in Antarctica in August is one of the worst times to try. It’s the tail end of winter and things are warming up, which means…
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Freshies and Mail
The two planes that managed to land this past weekend brought us our first fresh food and mail since the beginning of May. Four months without salad or fruit! Honestly, I didn’t feel that void until it was filled. I’ve been gorging on lettuce, oranges and kiwis. Another truth be told, I was nervous to…
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WinFly Begins
It’s been a typical game of hurry up and wait down here. Everyday I wake up and check on the flight status. The first flight of WinFly was supposed to arrive here at the beginning of last week, but has been cancelled daily for almost two weeks, so until this evening, we were still a…
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Day One Hundred
One hundred days, fifty-one thousand words on here, and guess what I just saw…the sun! Well, kind of. I had my coffee shift first thing, which was still busy despite the potential flight coming in later in the day. After coffee, I went back to my room and read and drank coffee for a bit.…
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Day Ninety-Nine
I posted a couple photos on the socials earlier this week. Snaps of my new dorm building and the view from my new back door. In the caption I also noted that I only had two more sleeps until my first sunrise since May. After I made the post it came to mind that the…
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Day Ninety-Eight
Yesterday marked a month of being sober. After six years of sobriety, I decided to test the waters over mid-winter and see if, perhaps, I could drink like a normal person. After three weeks of dabbling on and off, I came to the not so surprising conclusion that I am still very much unable to…
The Whole Wide World 