“Very few foreigners go to this unpretentious, tranquil town… It felt very off-the-beaten-track to us.”
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“Very few foreigners go to this unpretentious, tranquil town… It felt very off-the-beaten-track to us.”
“As I huffed and puffed my way up… the memory of what it takes to climb a mountain flooded back to me.”
“His way of getting us going after stops along the way was this lovely phrase: “Ikimasho!” (Japanese for ‘Let’s go!’)”
“A place such as Ushuaia tantalyzes us map-addicts… There’s just something special about places like this.”
“…in those days, we compared notes with people traveling in the opposite direction. The result was fresh word-of-mouth insights & important travel tips.”
Where am I? I don't know. I don't know, but it doesn't really matter. I know I am lying in unfamiliar air with a big, open window.
“Adventures are all about challenging myself to step beyond the everydayness of daily life…”
“It begins with an impression of presence, then your eyes discern a change in the darkness of the water, then… Right there! See it? A whale!”
“In Antarctica, a good pair of binoculars and patience while scanning the surface of the water and icebergs were the keys to success.“
“Under the ice are vast mountain ranges and sprawling plains, crushed to elevations measurably depressed by all that massive weight on top.”
“To use one word—ice—to describe the predominant feature of an entire continent can lull a person into a terrifically limiting frame of mind.”
“This chinstrap penguin looking directly into the camera can’t possibly be for real...can it?”
“Some of the roughest seas of anywhere in the world belong to Drake Passage, making it one of the most iconic, must-experience journeys for anyone in love with adventure.”
“The Kingdom of Bhutan in the eastern Himalaya is among the world’s remaining mystical, magical places.”
“It was a nasty crash: five vehicles, one on its roof, another ripped in half. One fatality. My job was traffic control.”