Category Archive: world travel

Feb 16

Shackleton’s Whisky Dug Up in Antarctica – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com

I missed this when it first appeared. This is pretty cool!  Three crates of Scotch whisky & two crates of brandy that were left behind in 1909 by Ernest Shackleton in a hut that he & his men built. They stayed in this hut for an entire winter, before heading out for what would be …

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Feb 12

dream vacation

What’s your dream vacation like? Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world? What would you do? Who would you take? And what if it was FREE? Ah yes, the what ifs we always day dream about. Well, Gap Adventures has a neat little thing on their site where you can …

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