Come Travel the World – Antarctica
/Come on… let’s explore a little. You don’t need a parka or heavy boots. You can visit in your Pjs, if you want.
Read MoreCome on… let’s explore a little. You don’t need a parka or heavy boots. You can visit in your Pjs, if you want.
Read MoreOur Ford Transit didn't come with a GPS. We do need one, however, and on our initial travels, we used a smart phone as our GPS. Our iPhone works reasonably well, but the display is small, and the ambient road noise sometimes overwhelms the voice commands when we're at highway speeds. Since we plan to be traveling a lot over the next few years, we wanted something better. Here's how we chose it.
Read MoreWe spent March 2006 in Tierra del Fuego at the bottom of the world. We were anchored in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city on the planet, and met up with old cruising friends on Fifth Season and Asylum. Both couples were heading off to Antarctica for excursions, having just booked their tickets with a local travel agent. We visited the booking office and found that if we waited till the last minute, there were deep discounts (50+%) for unsold cabins. Still, the price was steep … $2,750/pp for 10 days. We wrestled with the idea of going. It was a big hit to the budget, but it was also a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Antarctica. If you've followed us for awhile, you'll know that we love to explore, but usually on the cheap. The budget took second place for a change. We traveled aboard the MS Explorer aka The Little Red Ship and our itinerary took us from Ushuaia across the Drake Passage to the Antarctic peninsula with several land excursions along the way. There were less than 100 passengers aboard and the crew included an ornithologist, a marine mammal expert, a geologist and an Antarctic historian.
It was an other worldly experience and one we'll never forget. Take a look …
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Hi there and welcome to Just A Little Further!
We are David and Marcie Lynn and we've lived aboard our Liberty 458 cutter-rigged sailboat since 2000.
What began as an urge to travel slowly and economically at our own pace ended up an adventure of a lifetime.
Well, here we are ... nearly 90,000 miles under the keel, 5 continents, 5 Great Southern Capes, 36 countries and almost two decades later, still taking one passage at a time and going just a little further.