Jan Mayen is tiny. Only 18 people live on the island. It used to be a Dutch whaling station in the 1600’s until the whales were almost hunted to extinction. It remained abandoned for a couple of hundred years. Now Jan Mayen is used by the Meteorological Institute or the Norwegian Military for Cyber Security. Although…
Norway Part 2 – Svalbard
We started off in Longyearbyen but were quickly ushered aboard the ship to take off for our trip around Svalbard. The only photos I have are of the Global Seed Vault. It’s just a concrete doorway. But, it’s amazing to think of all the millions of seeds they have stored there from all over the…
Norway – Part 1 – Oslo
Several things stood out on our trip to Norway. 1) There is no trash anywhere, that we could see. 2) The capital city is smaller than we expected. And honestly, I don’t know why we expected a sprawling metropolis, but we didn’t expect it to be smaller than Austin at almost 700k people. 3) The…
Crocodile Man Tour – Tarcoles, Costa Rica
Not too far from where I live in Costa Rica, we have this great tourist site called the Tarcoles River. Now, in reality, the Tarcoles River is the most polluted river in Costa Rica, where most of the sewage from the city of San Jose flows. So as a result, the crocodiles here are huge….