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But I fear hubby would go ballistic if I try that one.
Hi Carlos, it will be a great challenge toIf you are looking for a news adventures in your life, El Camino de Santiago have a new path from the Antarctica. Just 14.000 km separate the Antarctic Polar Circle from Santiago de Compostela... Now even with an arrow!
http://www.farodevigo.es/portada-pontevedra/2015/12/30/emblema-jacobeo-luce-antartida/1377906.html
Buen Camino
Carlos
Alwyn, I very much appreciate your gift of diplomatic understatement.It's really quite straight forward:
Anyone for a very long 'relay camino?
Alwyn, have you been here!? I have only ever seen friends' photos but it looks magnificent. And not to derail the thread but you've dropped a tantalizing nugget. So pretty please, enlighten us.the dry valley of Antarctica
... I have an old friend in Katikati who would probably love to try this, at least the 1st part--having sledged in the Antarctic in the 60s as part of a surveying team. Anyone for a very long 'relay camino?'
Just what does one do when bathing in the dry valley?
It's really quite straight forward:
1) Trek from South Pole to the spit of land close to Tierra del Fuego
2) Open boat (emulating Shackleton's journey) to Argentina.
3) Walk up the eastern side
4) Island hop from Venezuela to Trinidad & Tobago and The Bahamas.
5) Walk to Los Angeles and up the Pacific Coastal Trail
6) Walk Vancouver to Nome or Wales in Alaska and enter Russia
7) Walk to Poland via Belarus or the Baltic States.
8) You are now in home territory so I'll leave the rest up to you.
Sure? I shouldn't have asked. Serves me right.Viranani, no, I personally have not been to Antarctica.
You will have heard of the six degrees of separation: between you and, say, the President of the Central African Republic there is a link of six people (you know one, that one knows another and so on to the CAR President). In Aotearoa-New Zealand it said there are two degrees, regularly only one and quite often direct personal encounters with shakers and movers. So it is about this story, and others, from the "ice".
So, it comes as no great surprise that I have worked with three scientists (even though science is not my vocation) who have done research on the "ice", or, in this case in an ice free area of Antarctica. In particular Lake Vanda. This Wikipedia article mentions photography.
And, seeing this is not audio but video, you may wish to hold your hands to your eyes as you read further.
The original custom, according to my informants, was two fold:
1) all present had to bathe wearing Garden of Eden attire (if any could be found)
2) those not in the water could freely discuss the attributes of anything before them.
To start with all "ice" researchers were male. When female researchers went south there was initial consternation from the males: they were not intending to forgo their dip or change their other customs. I was told, much to the relief of all, the mixed crowd continued the original customs with vigour.
Viranani, it is safe to take your hands away from your eyes now.
For all I know you and I might be talking about the same people right now.
Peter could fit. 'Old school', was there in the 60s.
Yes, indeed. For over a decade and I still would if life hadn't taken a strange left turn. I still have legal residency but only manage to get back once a year these days...I grew up in the top of Polynesia, so the bush and the culture felt like home immediately--and there was a deep sense of familiarity and connection to the land and people that mystified me then. Now it makes a bit more sense.Your kiwi patois is very good. You obviously spent some time amongst Kiwis and, more, likely lived here.
Thank you--but I can't say I've gotten there yet, but that's the direction I hope I'm going! Work very much in progress.Your own understandings of how things are is very integrated and you yourself seem well grounded. I am sure you and some of the religious sister friends of my wife would get on very well at a personal level, despite the difference in detail of your and their lives and beliefs.
So glad you spelled it out! Piece of cake.It's really quite straight forward:
1) Trek from South Pole to the spit of land close to Tierra del Fuego
2) Open boat (emulating Shackleton's journey) to Argentina.
3) Walk up the eastern side
4) Island hop from Venezuela to Trinidad & Tobago and The Bahamas.
5) Walk to Los Angeles and up the Pacific Coastal Trail
6) Walk Vancouver to Nome or Wales in Alaska and enter Russia
7) Walk to Poland via Belarus or the Baltic States.
8) You are now in home territory so I'll leave the rest up to you.
I hope you noticed the walk from Florida (after the Bahamas) to Los Angeles would traverse New Mexico. Should I get close, I hope you might have a cup of tea and a camp bed for a lie down.So glad you spelled it out! Piece of cake.
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