Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

  A couple of weeks ago I discovered I'd never completed sharing photos from our 2020 trip to Patagonia. I'm focusing on my late husband's photos from the trip, both because he was a better photographer than I'll ever be, and so that those photos don't just sit there on my hard drive, never seen. Last week we looked at the Perito Moreno glacier from the water. How about a look from the land? (Note: in 2026, just six years later, the glacier has changed from advancing to retreating, and is now something like half a mile from the viewpoint).   We'll end with a couple of videos of the glacier calving--some huge chunks came off, about 7 or 8 minutes apart.   In a pan near the end of this one you can see the huge, clean, deep blue space where the piece fell off in the previous video.   I hope you enjoyed this little visit to a now-endangered glacier (endangered, like all the rest, due to climate change).   I'll find some mountain photos for next week!   ☕ Buy me...

For those who want to read it in order, here are the links to post #1     post #2     post #3     post #4     post # 5 and post #6   of the 2-week  campervan tour of Iceland's Ring Road in September 2025. I'm working my way as fast as I can through editing the photos, but got behind being away from home for a week over Thanksgiving! The last post left off partway through...  Day 8 (Sept. 18): After leaving  Seythisfjorthur, I spent the rest of the day driving through East Iceland, pulling off the road wherever the spirit moved me to take a short walk or just a photo or two. I drove through some of the villages, even walked around one or two briefly, but didn't stay long anywhere. East Iceland fjords Possibly fish farming?    The wind was fierce along here, reducing my desire to get out of the van. In fact, though the wind blew pretty much the whole time I was in Iceland, it was particularly strong from here out. Strei...

Glacier Walking and More Penguins! Gratuitous penguin to start the post Our second day in Antarctica, and we are finally going to set foot on it! Many of our shipmates had done so the previous day, while we were kayaking, but Dave and I hadn't yet been off the water. And we were going to start right off with a glacier walk, the longest shore excursion on offer (which mostly filled me with regret that I'd had coffee with breakfast, as one is to leave nothing, and they mean nothing , on shore. Nor is a pee bottle much help when you are in the middle of a rope team). It didn't seem completely certain the night before that we'd be able to do this. While we cruised through the night (more or less in circles, as it turned out), the weather had been... imperfect. Yep. That's snow in the beam of the bridge searchlight. Despite the snowy night, the morning was beautiful. Since we needed the most time for our outing we were the first to leave the ship. Looking back from acros...