Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I may be so bold as to say I like it more than Christmas. In fact, I will declare it as my favorite holiday. One of the reasons I love it so much of course is the food. But another major reason is because of my family’s tradition… Continue reading Thanksgiving at McMurdo
Antarctica, surprisingly, is a very dry climate. In fact, it is the coldest and driest place on Earth. The Dry Valleys (pictured below) is THE driest place. Yup, drier than Death Valley or Saudi Arabia or the Sahara. a The continent is a polar desert and the humidity at the South Pole is about 0.03%… Continue reading The Shocking Truth
Someone the other day asked me if being down here is what I had expected. I didn’t know how to answer because I had absolutely no idea what to expect. The only impressions I had before going were from watching March of the Penguins and from reading my friend Lizzy’s blog about her experience here… Continue reading First impressions of McMurdo
I know some of you may have a lot of questions about how what why etc I am going to Antarctica. Or maybe you don’t but I’m going to tell you anyway! Who? me, duh What? Working as a vehicle operator at McMurdo, the biggest of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic bases When? October 2017… Continue reading Antarctica FAQS
I visited Ireland when I studied abroad in 2010, but it was a quick trip of about 4 days on a coach bus with 30 or so others. Don’t get me wrong it was fun, but that trip I focused more on taste-testing Guinness than really exploring the country. As soon as my mom said… Continue reading Emerald Isle
This summer I decided to do a second season working as a tour guide. At the end of April I headed up to our base in New Jersey where I got my van, trailer + gear ready and then picked up my first group in Newark. This trip was called a Southern Sun and hit… Continue reading Summer in a Nutshell
I had bought plane tickets months ago to travel across the pond in April, but then my plans changed and I needed to decide on a new destination. I played around with a couple different ideas- Portugal, Belize, Mexico… then I started looking at flights to Nicaragua because for a couple years now I’ve been… Continue reading Land of Volcanoes
For a couple years now I have been interested in working a ski season. I know a couple people who did it in years past and it seemed like a lot of fun. I was always occupied during the winters before though, gallivanting around other countries (or saving up money at home in order to… Continue reading Life in Colorado
I had a couple weeks free in the beginning of November before Thanksgiving. As my friend Mal recently put it “you don’t like to stay in one place do you?” Which is like saying “you like cookie dough don’t you?” I love cookie dough. I had been floating the idea of going back to La… Continue reading Back with the whale sharks
I must admit I did not come up with this phrase. It was my brilliant friend Natasha who was the mastermind behind the rhyme. She coined it when my teaching friends (her, Emi, Rosalyn, Emma) and myself decided we were going to reunite this year, four years after we met and taught in France. We… Continue reading Reconvene 2016
