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 →

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 →

We were supposed to visit the hamlet of Grise Fjord today, the most northern hamlet in North America. But due to a death i

This morning we took a Zodiac tour of Dorset Glacier. The ice was amazing! The kayak program also started. Kayaking was →

Today was another very windy day. We sailed past Prince Leopold Island, a migratory bird sanctuary whose vertical cliffs are →

When I woke up today, I looked forward to taking a watercolor workshop from Canadian landscape artist Andrew Sookrah. After →

We deviated from the historic Northwest Passge by sailing through Bellot Strait. This helped us avoid sea ice that we would have →

No matter which you choose, the name of this hamlet is difficult to pronounce. Uqshuuqtuq is the Inuit name and Gjøa Haven is →

For centuries, men searched for a shipping route from Europe through the Arctic waters to Asia. It wasn’t until 1906 that

No one knows why an Arctic island was named after the Swedish opera star Jenny Lind. She toured →

Today turned out to be a sea day—steaming through Coronation Gulf. Our onboard marine biologist, Pierre Richard, said that →

The cruise through the Northwest Passage started in Kugluktuk, a remote hamlet in Nunavut, Canada located above the Arctic Circle →

Great Basin National Park sits on the eastern side of Nevada. To get to Califonia from there requires driving route 50, which is called →

Great Basin National Park is one of the few areas where you can find the bristlecone pine. A short hike (2.8 miles round trip) with some →

Great Basin became a National Park in 1986. Its relatively isolated location attracts only 200,000 visitors per year. That’s approximately →

When I went to Snowbird I expected to learn about the wildflowers and animals in that area. Indeed I did. The pot gut squirrel →

When most people think of Snowbird, they imagine skiing downhill. For me, it means hiking downhill. After getting off the tram at →

The first thing most ski resorts turn to when trying to attract a summer crowd is mountain biking. Not all of us mountain bike. Even if →

Bryce Canyon National Park claims to have the largest concentration of hoodoos found anywhere on the planet. Hoodoos are columns of rock →

Looking at this image it’s impossible to tell that it’s 117º F outside. Yet if you had been in the hotel room when I placed my bare foot →