Voyage Day One

Nervous energy this morning as I completed my packing for Iceland and the voyage on the sailing ship the Lord Nelson.

Trying to decide what to bring, given the uncertainty about our route. Would we be going to the Faroe Islands and Iceland as advertised, or with a tight schedule and bad weather would we be taking a more southern route? Balanced against this are the limits of storage and laundry on board a tall ship.,both of which, I have been told, will be limited.

Now, on Icelandair with Ann, my watch reads 12:25 AM on June 6th, but it's getting brighter and brighter outside as we fly over the Labrador Sea, the southern tip of Greenland and the midnight sun. Its white ice as far as we can from 3700 feet. This is the same sea Lord Nelson will be be sailing in about a month.

I can't help but to think about the Artic explorers of the 1800s in wooden ships who lived and died trapped in the ice for winter after winter seeking a Northwest Passage as we fly by at 530 mph.

Today's news was filled with President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, as weak as it is, the best hope we have for limiting climate change and keeping Greenland white.

Soon, we will be landing in Reykjavik and will begin the first phase of this adventure. After 4 nights in Iceland Ann will return home to Evanston and I will go on to London. In Reykjavik we will be be picking up our rental car and driving to our Airbnb apartment Ann has secured for us.