Alaska
We got home Sunday night and ran errands all Monday, dropping off film and restocking the fridge.
I think in my mind, I would type out daily blog entries on the laptop and then post them all once we got home, but I never got around to writing and the laptop’s batteries can hold only five minutes of charge before giving up; the long bus ride down from the Arctic ocean was spent reading instead of writing. In any case, we took more than 2100 pictures on the digital camera alone, of which about 1000 were worth a second look, and the business of sorting through all these would have to wait until we got home, anyway.
I actually played out my own version of Supersize Me, gaining six or so pounds over the course of this (back of the envelope: 9K Calories/kg of fat, 2.7kg weight gain over 15 days equals about a 1600 Calories/day surplus: some of this is from eating more, some from moving around less; I can claim that going on cruises is almost as bad for you as supersizing at McDonald’s!). Life will get back to normal over the next week, though we’ll be eating a lot of oatmeal, fruit and steamed vegetables over the next month.
In any case, I’ll be posting entries daily, in the sequence of when things happened on our tour. This will give me time to sort through the digital and film shots. Our first stop, Vancouver, starts here.