leigh787

Alright, I owe an explanation for the spate of desert-related deviations. About 10 months ago, I rolled out of bed one day and decided to sign up for a 250km (155 mile) desert foot race across the Sahara in Egypt. I know this is the part where I lose most people. And at the time I thought it was every bit as insane as well. It wasn't that I was a particular good runner. In fact I hadn't even run for 5 years (college does that to you) and the furthest I'd ever run in my whole life (way back in 2004) was about 10km (6 miles). But the desert held a certain allure - had always been the case, actually. It probably stemmed from those childhood d

“First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.” --Kim Stanley Robinson The world’s highest, driest, windiest, and coldest continent is, unsurprisingly, also the most remote. To reach it, one must brave the furies of the infamous Drake Passage, one of the world’s roughest seas where waves could reach four storeys high. For two and a half days, the sky and the ocean take turns flooding the view through the cabin porthole, alternately creating the illusion that one is on a plane and in a submarine every few seconds. If the relentless motion or flying objects in the cabin don’t take you out, the

I'm off to Disney World, Buenos Aires, and finally Antarctica for the next month or so. Hope to bring back nice photos :strip: What's everyone else's plans?