Hello again. This is a quick post to test the system is still working after being dormant for five years. My last blog post was departing Seattle in June 2019. The world changed a few months later when covid and lockdowns restricted all travel.

But…I am now back in Seattle at the start of a new adventure. Next week I board the MS Roald Amundsen ship in Nome, Alaska, to hopefully sail through the North West Passage in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The last time I was in Seattle, I had spent six months travelling from Antarctica to the Arctic. In 2010, and also on this blog, I travelled Around the World in 60 Days. The Canadian sector of that RTW trip was overland by train from Vancouver to Halifax, NS. I now hope to do Vancouver to Halifax via ship across the top of Canada and hopefully ‘circumnavigate’ Canada, so to speak.

Only time will tell as sea ice may prevent a transit through the choke point of the North West Passage.

This blog will obviously depend on a) internet access in remote Arctic waters; and b) something interesting happening. I’m not sure the first four days at sea sailing through the Bering Strait will provide much in the way of an interesting read…but you never know.

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