Good-bye Karla. Even though your posts were intended for others, I found your narration fascinating and the pictures were out of sight. This is the closest I will get to the Caribbean and have appreciated the opportunity to play the "fly on the wall." Thanks for sharing. Say hello to your folks for me.
Hello again! It's early in 2025 and I am trying to catch up. 2023 was an absolute blur. I started the year with a new job and a big trip planned and that's about all I managed to do in 2023. I onboarded, then, in March, I went to Antarctica! It was an incredible trip, and left surprisingly little down time. After I got back from Antarctica it was full throttle on the job, working weekends at the winery, and I didn't come up for air until the end of the year. Me on the Antarctic Continent This year's list is quite short as a result. I didn't have a lot of time for reflection, I mainly just had my head down and charged through. I didn't have the bandwidth to discover many new things with starting up counseling again, trying to learn a new job and ways of working, staying involved with my family and trying to be present in my relationships. But these are a few songs that landed well throughout the year. The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your ...
Wednesday March 8, 2023 Scotia Sea between South Georgia Island and the Antarctic Peninsula Woke up around 1am with a huge swell making things fall over all around me. I was very thirsty so I got up to get some water and look out the window at the raging sea around us. They don’t let us go outside on deck in seas this high (15 feet). It was a quiet day on board since there was so much swell and I spent most of the day reading a book and watching lectures. Thursday March 9, 2023 Scotia Sea Day 2 The clocks changed so everyone got an extra hour of sleep. The buzz on board about the wedding that will take place is growing, the rumor is it will happen on March 12 or 13. Another quiet day with lectures about geology, penguins, and a game where your team had to guess the size of different animals and plants. They do a good job entertaining us on days at sea but they are definitely quieter days for most of the passengers. Some due to sea sickness, some just trying to catch up on sleep. The en...
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