A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to McMurdo Station, Antarctica by TravelPod blogger Velvetnron titled “Back to McMurdo for the third winter” Velvetnron’s travel blog entry: “We’re back again for ONE more winter. It’s good to be “home” once again. Of course, it’s not really home but it’s the only place where we have a room that’s our own. And all of our stuff is here too. I’m happy to be back here and I’m looking forward to a pretty awesome winter. My work situation is really making me happy…I couldn’t ask for a better one. I’m back in the plumbing warehouse again and loving it. The longest amount of time that Ron and I spent in one place during our time off was our last three weeks of vacation that we spent in Northern Wisconsin. It was a nice relaxing time and it was a relief to know that we didn’t have to go anywhere or do anything. That’s sort of what it feels like to be back down here for the winter–a relief that we don’t have to do anything different for 9 months. Vacation is fun but it’s also alot of moving around and flying and living out of a suitcase…you get tired after awhile. Things are really busy around here right now–there are probably still around 1000 people on station and we’re trying to get the resupply vessel unloaded. It’s the time where all the winter-overs are waiting for all the summer people (some refer to them as “tourists”) to go home so we can settle in. The last flight out is later this year, probably into the first week …

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Titusville, United States by TravelPod blogger Youngtravellers titled “We are go for launch.” Youngtravellers’s travel blog entry: “The fact that we have had very few true adventures since our return to the US two years ago sometimes makes us a little antsy. We also have not ceased to make plans, and although most of those plans involve expensive air travel and overseas stays that, in our current jobs, with our current available vacation days, make themselves somewhat impossible; nevertheless, every now and again we come up with an adventure that is wholly plausible – if only we can get the timing right. So we did. One of Travis’s goals has long been to see a shuttle launch. Usually when he mentions such things, I think, “Hmm, that would be a very neat thing,” and so the plotting and planning may commence. The plan: Leave work in Washington, DC on the evening of Thursday, May 13, and drive all night so that we might arrive in Titusville, FL in the morning in time to find ourselves a good seat to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. Launch is scheduled for Friday, May 14 at 2:19 pm After launch, go to pre-reserved hotel and pass out. On Saturday, visit the Kennedy Space Center to see the facility and do all manner of silly touristy things. The catch: Kennedy Space Center launches are notorious for being delayed for the slightest problem, and since the window for launch is 10 minutes (due to what’s flying …

In July 2009 we traveled to Uganda to teach in two small village schools called Lungujja Nursery and Primary & Ttega Child Development Centre.