The Lives Less Ordinary podcast has true story that inspired the delightful movie 'The Penguin Lessons' with Steve Coogan & Jonathan Pryce. Spoilers if you haven't seen it already but knowing won't reduce your enjoyment if do. I loved this movie, both for itself
Watching another Karl's (Watson's recent trip
The family name in Antarctica?
How you never escape
Clicked on a LinkedIn comment, on a post by a CAD world connection, and thought I recognised an Antarctic location in the profile header photo. A web search soon had me at Margaret Plumley's lovely sketchbook from a trip similar to my 2019 Dr Karl Expedition. Her blogs
Travel map in QGIS
I saw Sam's '3rd Annual Everybody Draws a Penguin Day!' tweet on Sunday afternoon just before was heading out for a bike ride. Sunday evening fired up Sketchbook and made a quick entry based on my favourite photo from the 2019 trip. From Antarctic Mission Log
I first saw Hubcap Creatures By Ptolemy in Car Magazine back in 2004 (even blogged about it) & loved them. Ptolemy Elrington crafts discarded/found hubcaps into works of art complete with the scratches and scars of their previous life. I loved them then, to the point of finding out
Lookng back, a different me, a different world
Antarctic letterbox 'surprise'
I've only been to Argentina, and a few km into Brazil, but this shows how vast Brazil is and why most people don't realise where (in relation to North America and Africa) South America is.
My last day in Argentina, then home