Crystal Serenity Set to Navigate the Northwest Passage with 1600 passengers

Map by Crystal Cruises

It's happening. For the first time, a luxury cruise ship will transit the Northwest Passage from Alaska to New York City. Read about it here.

I have sailed in the eastern portion of this routing, around Baffin Island, the Davis Strait and west Greenland. It is beautiful in a stark kind of way and one wonders if the luxury cruise ship crowd can endure three weeks of Arctic scenery? My guess is that there is not that much demand to see this through the years. Climate change is driving the ability for these ships to transit these waters.

Photo from Alaska Public Radio

The 10 Best Photographs from Mars Curiosity

They are great! See them here.

Earthly-Musings Now Part of "Forming the Thread" Blog site

As a (now) long-time blogger, I usually have moments of fear and uncertainty, wondering if anyone  out there is actually reading. A short while ago, I struck up a friendship with a reader who began to notice our similar life paths with wanderings we have shared in the Grand Canyon, Antarctica and Patagonia. The Earthly-Musings blog site brought me Joan Larsen, who felt a certain connection to my words and wanderings. And now, Earthly-Musings is featured on her site, "Forming the Thread" (Words form the thread upon which we string our experiences. – Aldous Huxley). You can read the first installment, a piece from my hike on the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island in 2013, here.

Nice Story on Georgie White Clark - Pioneer River Maven of the Grand Canyon

Whew! It's been awhile since I've had time to post here. I'm sorry to the one or two readers who ever look here. But "All-In-Days"karma" has not died - it was just taking a rest.

This post serves to remember Georgie White Clark, pioneer river maven of the Grand Canyon. My colleague, Joan L. shared a link from the year 2001 that recalls the renaming of a rapid in Grand Canyon after Georgie. But the article goes on to give a lot more background on the woman, an enigmatic soul who found solace among the rocks and rivers of the southwest. Read it here.

The Arrival of the Yankee Invasion in Cuba

Thanks to my sister Laura for this gem of a photo! Air Force 1 arriving in Havana Cuba on March 20, 2016. It's about time that the incredibly stupid policy of ignoring Cuba comes to an end. One wonders if this could be viewed as "Bay of Pigs Invasion II" carrying Yankee capitalism once again to the island. Remember, Fidel's Revolution was a reaction to the Bautista puppet regime of the 1950's. Cycles.

January 29, 2016

This Friday, January 29, 2016, will mark the 400th anniversary of the first sighting, and naming of Cape Horn!  Many dignitaries will be present from both Chile and The Netherlands. Please see my recent posting about a landing I made at Cape Horn on December 31, 2015 here.

Report on the I-10 Bridge Collapse at Tex Wash

Thanks to John P. who passed this along about the bridge collapse in last summer's monsoon: http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/economy/2016/01/08/doomed-fail-collapsed-interstate-10-bridge-crucial-design-flaws-study/78417260/