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We again entered conference mode. The Drake passage was pretty rough last night before we passed the South Shetland Islands, but once we were in the open, it was pretty calm - back to Lake Lagoda...

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Last day in Antarctica. This day we were supposed to be back at the South Shetland Islands, but windy conditions prevented us from going back there. So instead we went further south, with a plann...

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This morning we had scenic cruising on the Lemaire channel. We were told the ship would pass through narrow straits with tall mountains on either side. It was cool, but the weather was so foggy, ...

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The ship was still shaky when the day started, but much less so. So I only took one Bonine. The ship runs noticeably slower too… presumably because we have reached the Antarctic Peninsula and thu...

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The morning flight to Ushuaia was painful. Hurtigruten arranged for buses to pick us up from the hotel, which was easy enough. But we stood for 1 1/4 hours in line at the airport to get in the ti...

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It was a lazy day. We slept 10 hours last night, and woke up at 8am. There was a piece of paper slipped under the door overnight, from Hurtigruten, with check-in instructions for us. The check-in...

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We had a smooth landing in Buenos Aires at 10:30 local time, and customs and luggage claim were smooth too because no one flew on NYE. By the time we got our luggage and met up with the car servi...

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We left home on an Uber at 4:30 to go to JFK, but driver early and arrived at 4. So we got to airport with plenty of time (around 5). Terminal 8 is much better than Terminal 2. Security was only ...

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In past trips I’ve used facebook to document the photos of the trip and OD to document the narrative, but this one has so much media that it really should be narrative-driven. So I’ll put more me...

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1. What did you do in 2022 that you’d never done before? Use a heart-shaped jacuzzi. Work a Hybrid in-person/remote work week. 2. Did you achieve your goals for the year, and will you make more ...

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‘Tis the season for performing I’m upstate now at the in-laws with La Professeure for Thanksgiving. It’s been a busy month because of the Carnegie Hall concert, and also because of the Christmas...

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Electric future We bought a car. A couple of months ago our car started having occasional problems - every once in a while, it would have trouble starting, and when it did start, it would get st...

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Screwed over by the freeze This week I learned that the education department’s headcount was finally unfrozen, but it went to someone else… It seems that someone else interviewed for the role wh...

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We had a relatively smooth transfer back home. We woke up at 3:30am for a 9:30am flight. The airport was 1 ½ hours away, so we needed to be there at 6:30am, so our bus was at 5am, but the ship ne...

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We were supposed to be docked at Budapest today but instead docked at Komoran because of low water levels at Budapest. So we took a bus at 8:30, which arrived at 10. We went to Heroes Square firs...

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Today is our third day in Vienna. We were going to sail out in the afternoon so it’s a short day. We went on an excursion to the Elmayer dance school for a waltz lesson and then to Mozart’s apart...

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This was our full day in Vienna. We signed up for a longer version of the tour we did on our honeymoon. Our group was small because it costs extra, with only 7 people, which made it easy to hop o...

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Today was a visit to Krems in the afternoon. But before that, we woke up to the ship entering the Melk Lock and the sight of Melk Abbey in the distance. After breakfast I went to the very front o...

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Today I learned that Salzburg is named after its salt mine and castle, not because it is a hill with salt in it, and that I’d been misspelling it my whole life. We woke up early in the morning, ...

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Today was the first excursion with the cruise proper, and I was struck again by how large the Viking ship is. Shipping off 200 people (actually 180, since the ship is only sailing at 90% capacity...

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This was a transit day. We were to take the bus from Prague to Passau in the afternoon to board the ship, so we had a free morning. We had breakfast and checked out by 9:30, and spent 2 hours wal...

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On my birthday we hired a private guide to take us to Hradec Kralove and Kutna Hora. We headed out at 8, arrived at 9:30, and were handed off to a special guide from Petrof for our own private to...

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This was our first full day in Prague. It started at 8am with a city walking tour. We had a very good guide - well paced, informative, engaging, and entertaining. We got to the Jewish quarter fir...

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It was 12.30 local time when we landed. Viking has people greeting us and herding us into a bus. It was a smooth transfer. Our hotel was right by the Vltava, but when we got to it, it was about 2...

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We were supposed to go on a red-eye flight at 8:30pm. 8 hours flight + 6 hours time difference would put us in Prague at 10:30am the next day. We took an Uber to our train station and took the LI...

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