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  1. 11th December 2011, 12:58 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor View Post
    my eldest daughter was off on a holiday to the Antarctic circle this morning

    one way of dodging the heat i suppose

    she gets back at 6am christmas morning so i will be up early to see what santa has delivered and to mingle with the jet set at the international terminal it appears ...

    i suppose least i will be able to say my camera went to Antarctica
    Well she should get some really cool photos!!

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    Antarctica - yep I;d love to. Anyone got the spare $20K required?

    Ron - get out on one of the bikes mate. As you know it helps clear the mind as you have to focus on the job at hand, putting other things aside. It's like meditation - only faster.
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    daughter should be dropping anchor in this location in the next day or so

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    what ship is she on?.
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    "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
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    Seriously, she will not be able to stop talking about her trip - all over Christmas and into the New year - What a great experience she is having right now.

    Good for her Inc!
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    Don't hibernate Ron, get out and about. I give this advice based on watching my grandfather rapidly fade away while hibernating.
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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    Not too sure, myself. I don't post on here much and read very few posts. I'm an Admin on the RRNET and don't visit or do much there either. I'm thinking of resigning from that. I've been an Admin on that forum from soon after it was started. I'm not that interested in even leaving home.
    Come on Ron!!! get motivated, go for a long trip on the motorbike, take a trailer and camping gear with you.
    I have done it in the early 90's for 8 months and come back home full of energy.

    Perhaps then you can get a Purchasing Officer job and write a book with all the faulty good and how the company went broke
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bundalene View Post
    I'm sure she will absolutely love the trip.

    Our daughter, Sharon, spent 6 weeks sailing from Ushuaia around to Cape Town via Antarctica on the barque "Europa" early in 2007. Some of the photos she took are absolutely mind blowing.

    For her it was certainly the trip of a lifetime.

    Erich
    She done the trip with Carlos Pedro Vairo, the director of the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia?
    He used to have a nice sailing yacht and explored all the canals in the tip of South America and with the icebreaker belongs to the museum used to go to Antartica.
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    G'day Arthur

    Sharon did the trip on the sailing barque "Europa" -from memory it took 52 days to get to Cape Town. She got terribly seasick crossing Drakes Passage - it was a couple of days of very rough seas. She actually was part of the crew and took part in all the crew activities (including cooking a very large octopus that was given to them on one of the islands). Most passengers were encouraged to help with the day to day work.

    They visited the South Shetland Islands and also Tristan Da Cunah.

    If you look up the " barque Europa" website it shows the route for the 52 day trip. It leaves Ushuaia in February and arrives in Cape Town in April.

    I was going to post some photos she took, but didn't want to hijack Inc's thread.

    Cheers Erich
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