My trip to Antarctica was an amazing, uplifting, mind-blowing experience, and even two weeks after returning home I'm still soaking it all in...
The purpose of the trip was getting my 90 year-old dad to Antarctica, his 7th continent. That was my dad's entire bucket list, right there, and now he's done it! And he was nice enough to take me and 4 of my siblings with him, making it the family adventure of a lifetime.
What was best about the trip? Penguins! Seals! Sea lions! Whales! Family time! Icebergs! Abandoned whaling stations! Being inside the caldera of an extinct volcano! Calving glaciers! Tooling around the Antarctic Ocean in Zodiacs!
There were so many stupendous, spectacular natural wonders on display that at least once a day I found myself asking "How is that even possible??" |