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  1. #46661
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    Jan 2010
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    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil View Post
    I am hitting Ottawa/Montreal in December, Newfoundland in January, Edmonton/Calgary in February and Vancouver in March or April.
    Nice. I always imagined/hoped that Newfoundland was named in silly, ineloquent was as the name suggests. A 'who's on first' of 'we found new land'.

  2. #46662
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Nice. I always imagined/hoped that Newfoundland was named in silly, ineloquent was as the name suggests. A 'who's on first' of 'we found new land'.
    Checks out.

  3. #46663
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil View Post
    That is really cool!
    Some might even say cold! Even "icy".

  4. #46664
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    Some might even say cold! Even "icy".
    So it is the Aimo of northern destinations?

  5. #46665
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil View Post
    So it is the Aimo of northern destinations?
    Nope, I am warm and snuggly!

  6. #46666
    Quote Originally Posted by aimo View Post
    Nope, I am warm and snuggly!
    Ha! Good comeback.

  7. #46667
    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    Atlanta 'burbs
    Has anyone else been to the arctic circle? Mine came thanks to Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club. I have a “Blue Nose” card for crossing the circle (similar to the Shellback designation for crossing the equator, which I also have). The initiation for Blue Nose is not as extreme as the Shellback one. It involves the Junior Officer and the Senior enlisted man on board going to the forward bull nose in their underwear and painting it blue with a small brush while underway. Then all other uninitiated crew gets a salt water hose down with a fire hose. Cold times!!! The good news is that everyone gets “medically” treated for exposure with a mixture of everclear and orange juice.

  8. #46668
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Vermont
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Has anyone else been to the arctic circle? Mine came thanks to Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club. I have a “Blue Nose” card for crossing the circle (similar to the Shellback designation for crossing the equator, which I also have). The initiation for Blue Nose is not as extreme as the Shellback one. It involves the Junior Officer and the Senior enlisted man on board going to the forward bull nose in their underwear and painting it blue with a small brush while underway. Then all other uninitiated crew gets a salt water hose down with a fire hose. Cold times!!! The good news is that everyone gets “medically” treated for exposure with a mixture of everclear and orange juice.
    I am in fact a member of the Arctic Circle CLub...Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories...very very large lake trout. Happy to say I was not in Uncle Sam's yacht club at the time...

  9. #46669
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Has anyone else been to the arctic circle? Mine came thanks to Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club. I have a “Blue Nose” card for crossing the circle (similar to the Shellback designation for crossing the equator, which I also have). The initiation for Blue Nose is not as extreme as the Shellback one. It involves the Junior Officer and the Senior enlisted man on board going to the forward bull nose in their underwear and painting it blue with a small brush while underway. Then all other uninitiated crew gets a salt water hose down with a fire hose. Cold times!!! The good news is that everyone gets “medically” treated for exposure with a mixture of everclear and orange juice.
    1. Thank you for your selfless service. We all benefit from people like you.
    2. Great story!
    3. I have been as far south as Accra, Ghana and as far north as Saskatoon now. I am going to travel to Australia in the next year, so that will be much further south than any of my current junkets. I will only go further north if we can break into the European market.

  10. #46670
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Has anyone else been to the arctic circle? Mine came thanks to Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club. I have a “Blue Nose” card for crossing the circle (similar to the Shellback designation for crossing the equator, which I also have). The initiation for Blue Nose is not as extreme as the Shellback one. It involves the Junior Officer and the Senior enlisted man on board going to the forward bull nose in their underwear and painting it blue with a small brush while underway. Then all other uninitiated crew gets a salt water hose down with a fire hose. Cold times!!! The good news is that everyone gets “medically” treated for exposure with a mixture of everclear and orange juice.
    Hah. I have not and if I do it will not be in similar circumstances. Brrrt!

    I’ve been as far north as Fairbanks in AK. I still have family in Wasilla so I’m sure I’ll get up that way again.

  11. #46671
    Join Date
    Mar 2010
    Location
    Atlanta 'burbs
    My farthest south was Montevideo. We were supposed to get there after going around Cape Horn from Chili, but we ended up going back through the Panama Canal instead, after escaping a coup in Santiago. The military started bombing Allende’s (spelling?) government as we were pulling into port, claiming that the US Navy nuclear warship was there supporting the coup. We turned around and high tailed it away, back to Panama.
    Last edited by TruBlu; 10-29-2021 at 09:24 AM. Reason: Corrected autocorrect.

  12. #46672
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    Jan 2010
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    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    My farthest south was Montevideo. We were supposed to get there after going around Cape Horn from Chili, but we ended up going back through the Panama Canal instead, after escaping a coup in Santiago. The military started bombing Allende’s (spelling?) government as we were pulling into port, claiming that the US Navy nuclear warship was there supporting the coup. We turned around and high tailed it away, back to Panama.
    How much time did you get to spend at various ports with free time? Any? Interesting way to see the world (assuming peaceful times).

    Farthest south I have is New Zealand but one of those Antarctica ships is on the bucket list.

    Thank you for your service, BTW.

  13. #46673
    Join Date
    Feb 2018
    Location
    Dur'm
    Quote Originally Posted by TruBlu View Post
    Has anyone else been to the arctic circle? Mine came thanks to Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club. I have a “Blue Nose” card for crossing the circle (similar to the Shellback designation for crossing the equator, which I also have). The initiation for Blue Nose is not as extreme as the Shellback one. It involves the Junior Officer and the Senior enlisted man on board going to the forward bull nose in their underwear and painting it blue with a small brush while underway. Then all other uninitiated crew gets a salt water hose down with a fire hose. Cold times!!! The good news is that everyone gets “medically” treated for exposure with a mixture of everclear and orange juice.
    I've been juuust above the Arctic Circle on land, so no initiation ceremony was had (also, I was 11 or 12 years old, so no "medicine", either). I was in Fort Yukon, Alaska, in the dead of winter (high school basketball season for my siblings, actually). I think there were about six hours of daylight at that time of year. They gain and lose more than 7 minutes of daylight every day there. Also, although there were streets in town, they were actually just compacted snow, and I didn't recall seeing a car moving while we were there. If you wanted to go somewhere in town, you walked, and if you wanted to go somewhere out of town, you took a snowmobile. Getting there was the only time I've ever ridden in a ski plane, so it was all pretty memorable. We won both games, too.

    I've never been below the equator, sadly. In fact, I think the farthest south I've ever been is San Antonio Miami.
    Last edited by Phredd3; 10-29-2021 at 10:30 AM. Reason: I forgot that I went to Miami when I was very young.

  14. #46674
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Atlanta, GA
    I too have been to Reykjavik, but my furthest point north is the small Icelandic port town of Husavik (the purported "whale watching capital of Europe"), which is a couple of degrees further north than Reykjavik (66 degrees, as opposed to 64 for Reykjavik).
    Husavik is also...not ugly.

    DSC_0458.jpg

  15. #46675
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    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    I got just above the arctic circle in Norway years ago. No special ceremony, alas.

    -jk

  16. #46676
    I thought Anchorage was the furthest north I had been, but it turns out that it was Reykjavik by a few degrees.

  17. #46677
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    Jan 2010
    Location
    Outside Philly
    Surprised with all the world travelers here nobody has stayed at the La Quinta at the edge of earth.

  18. #46678
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    Feb 2007
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    Durham, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Surprised with all the world travelers here nobody has stayed at the La Quinta at the edge of earth.
    I have eaten at Milliways, though.

  19. #46679
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    Dur'm
    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Surprised with all the world travelers here nobody has stayed at the La Quinta at the edge of earth.
    Doesn't Kyrie stay there a lot?

  20. #46680
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    Jan 2010
    Location
    Outside Philly
    Quote Originally Posted by Phredd3 View Post
    Doesn't Kyrie stay there a lot?
    Oh, Kyrie…

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