I’ve had a lot of adventures running, and many more to come. Close to home, far flung, big cities, little towns, they run the gamut. But the one adventure I wanted to mention is one I just nailed down yesterday, In the first week of May I’m doing a couple of races with Mainly Marathons […]
Yesterday I received an unexpected surprise. I suppose surprises are by definition unexpected, but this was a doubly unexpected surprise. I opened this package and what should I discover but a SportHooks Seven Continents Club medal hanger! Two of my Table44 shipmates, Kerry and Jean Groce, sent it to me to commemorate my Seven Continents […]
As you’ll know if you’ve read the recent posts, I just completed the Antarctica Marathon, and thus have now run a marathon on all seven continents. It was a project years in the making, costly from financial, physical and emotional standpoints. But it was a thing. It was a very personal thing for me but […]
Melancholy and contemplative. That’s the order of the day. There was another terrorism attack today, this time in Belgium. It was ostensibly a response to the successful capture of a ringleader of the November 2015 Paris attacks. Scores of innocent people, just going about their daily lives, were injured or killed by evil. The cascading […]
What have I been doing with my 16.5 hour layover? It’s not over yet, but at midnight I did this: It just seemed like I might as well do something. I’ve been on a boat and I can’t fathom trying to sleep in these uncomfortable terminal chairs. The airline lounge closed at midnight and so […]
The Place? Hotel Boutique Complejo Tango AV. Belgrano 2608, BA, C1096AAQ AR It’s not only a hotel, it’s a tango institute. I’m in room 23, the El Cabaret room. The dance studio and green room for the adjacent bar room balcony stage (!!) is beneath me. The room is key carded and seems entirely safe. […]
3/18/2016 Kevin’s Log – Supplemental – 6:03 AM This is the last day on the ship. If things go according to plan, we should be back in Ushuaia in 24 hours, at 6 AM. Today’s schedule is very much a “prepare to disembark” day. The “account reconciliation party” is on the agenda, where we’ll get […]
3/17/2016 Kevin’s Log – Supplemental – 5:59 AM It’s been a rocky night, with nary an eye of the storm in sight. Rising up this morning, back on my feet, I took my time, not taking chances. Went the distance through the hallway and stairs, now I’m sitting in the mood lit library that demonstrates […]
3/16/2016 Kevin’s Log Supplemental – 5:07 AM There was an incident with a passenger. Not a major one; no fisticuffs or anything like that, but I had an encounter with a passenger that once again soured me a bit on people. I’ve been struggling with including the description of WWD (what went down) and I […]
3/15/2016 Kevin’s Log – Supplemental – 2 PM It will be a day long remembered. My first kayak experience and the day I set foot on the Antarctica continent proper. The former was around Cuverville Island and the latter is at Alimantre Brown in Paradise Harbor. The morning began with strong winds and a chill […]