Journey at Home: Truly Personal Training
The most personal Personal Training is a person who is both the trainer and the trainee. In this period of social isolation →
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Digital Rabbit
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
Journey at Home: Ireland
It’s St. Patrick’s Day! What better way to spend time at home than with Kirsten Allstaff and Jon O’Connell from the Online Academy of →
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
Journey at Home: The Journey Begins
I returned home from a short wine-tasting vacation in Napa Valley on March 11. Cultural and social events were getting cancelled →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 18, 2019
- 1 min
Kangerlussuaq: The Final Stop
Kangerlussuaq is located at the end of a 190 kilometer fjord, one of the longest in the world. It used to be a military →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 17, 2019
- 2 min
Sisimiut: Muskox Burgers, a Polar Plunge, and the Aurora
Sisimiut is the second-largest city in Greenland, after Nuuk. Although it is seventy-five kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 16, 2019
- 2 min
Ilulissat and Ilimanaq: The Unexpected Guests
The Greenland icecap meets the sea at the Ilulissat ice fjord via the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. It is one of the most active and →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 15, 2019
- 1 min
A Disko Day
Today we took the Zodiacs through Disko Fjord to Qeqertarsuaq, also known as Disko Island. It is largest island along Greenland’s →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 14, 2019
- 1 min
Tasiusaq, Greenland: Lots of Vegetation!
Greenland is quite different from the pebbled and rocky land of the Canadian Arctic. It’s thick with vegetation and very squishy →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 13, 2019
- 1 min
A Day at Sea: Heading for Greenland
Today we head for Greenland. It's a day to kick back and relax. I signed up for a beading workshop given by Susie, one of our →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 12, 2019
- 3 min
Ausuittuq (Grise Fiord)—A Claim to the High Arctic
A day later than planned, we made it to Grise Fiord. The funeral that was supposed to happen yesterday did did not because the plane →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
74 Degrees North
We were supposed to visit the hamlet of Grise Fjord today, the most northern hamlet in North America. But due to a death i
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 10, 2019
- 1 min
Dorest Glacier and More Bears
This morning we took a Zodiac tour of Dorset Glacier. The ice was amazing! The kayak program also started. Kayaking was →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
Beechey Island: Dying in a Desolated Land
Today was another very windy day. We sailed past Prince Leopold Island, a migratory bird sanctuary whose vertical cliffs are →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 8, 2019
- 2 min
A Polar Bear and Beluga Whales
When I woke up today, I looked forward to taking a watercolor workshop from Canadian landscape artist Andrew Sookrah. After →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 8, 2019
- 2 min
High Winds but High Spirits
We deviated from the historic Northwest Passge by sailing through Bellot Strait. This helped us avoid sea ice that we would have →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 7, 2019
- 2 min
Uqshuuqtuq or Gjøa Haven?
No matter which you choose, the name of this hamlet is difficult to pronounce. Uqshuuqtuq is the Inuit name and Gjøa Haven is →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 6, 2019
- 6 min
A Visit to the HMS Erebus
For centuries, men searched for a shipping route from Europe through the Arctic waters to Asia. It wasn’t until 1906 that
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 5, 2019
- 2 min
Jenny Lind Island
No one knows why an Arctic island was named after the Swedish opera star Jenny Lind. She toured →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 4, 2019
- 3 min
A Sea Day: Learning Lots and Hearing Rumors
Today turned out to be a sea day—steaming through Coronation Gulf. Our onboard marine biologist, Pierre Richard, said that →
Digital Rabbit
- Sep 3, 2019
- 3 min
Arriving Above the Arctic Circle
The cruise through the Northwest Passage started in Kugluktuk, a remote hamlet in Nunavut, Canada located above the Arctic Circle →
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