May 29, 2025 A beautiful day in St. Johns! For more than 500 years, St. Johns has been visited by European explorers, adventures, soldiers and pirates. St. Johns, the provincial capital, is the economic and cultural center for Newfoundland. First discovered in 1497 by John Cabot, St. Johns has a rich and colorful history. It Read more

May 28, 2025 Health care started out as something simple. If you were hit with a stick, someone patched you up. If you feel off your horse, someone pulled you out of the mud and set with you until the shaking stopped. In the beginning medicine was all about the visible, arrow in the leg, Read more

May 28, 2025 People in St. Anthony still tell stories about Wilfred Grenfell, M.D., as if he were a member of their family. Today, there is a hospital that bears his name. But his real legacy is that people are still here, they did not desert the area. Some industries remanences about the old days. Read more

May 27, 2025 I am so interested and excited about our arrival in Newfoundland, Canada tomorrow. I am especially excited about visiting St. Anthony, a city with healthcare at its very core. For most of its history medicine in the far reaches of Newfoundland, Canada’s eastern most providence had no resemblance to what we now Read more

May 26, 2025 This is a tender port and because of storm conditions in trying to transfer passengers on to the tenders and maneuver the tenders to makeshift docking areas we have been rerouted away from Qaqortoq, Greenland and will sail to our next scheduled ports St. Anthony and St. John, Newfoundland, Canada. This was Read more

May 26, 2025 Here is the blog I researched and prepared for our arrival in Greenland. Let’s hope we are able to disembark in Qaqortoq so that I can get some photos for you. Greenland is not green. So how did we end up with this country’s flagrant advertising? Why isn’t it called wind swept Read more

May 25, 2025 Our new captain, Captain Paul Adams, (ship captains work 3 months on-3 months off) called a general meeting of all passengers yesterday. The captain showed us a picture of the Greenland Sea, full of white caps, and asked the audience if we could identify the ice growlers (small ice bergs) from the Read more

May 22, 2025 Chongae and I spent overnight in Reykjavik, Iceland. Today was the type of day we both like, a relaxing wander, looking for nothing, seeing lots. Someone asked if I had a photo of the Iceland Thermal Power Plant. We did drive by it yesterday, but the photos are taken from a bus Read more

May 22, 2025 The Blue Lagoon has become almost synonymous with Iceland tourism, accounting for 42% of Iceland’s economy. In 2022, revenue totaled ISK 16.7 billion and the profits amounted to ISK 1.3 billion. The Blue Lagoon is the most visited tourist attractions in Iceland. The water’s milky blue hue is due to its high silica content. Read more

May 19, 2025 Not all of Iceland’s imagination comes out in novels or poetry sometimes it comes out in humor, so dry it should come with a drought warning. Iceland is a country where Jon Gnarr, a comedian ran for mayor of the capital city. When asked what his qualifications were he replied “none.” “I Read more