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Live trip report begins in the beginning of this thread and continues (amid a fair amount of banter) until post #321 here.

Regular trip report begins here.



Other people's trip reports:

@chff: https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=101296.0

@Dan:
Original Post for the trip: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/join-lifetime-kosher-catered-trip-antarctica/
Intro to trip: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/follow-me-to-antarctica/
Part 1: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/trip-notes-antarctica-part-1-buenos-airesplanning-positioning-adventure-lifetime/
Part 2: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/antarctica-trip-notes-part-2-flying-end-world-southernmost-chanukah-party-ushuaia/
Part 3: https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/trip-notes/shabbat-shalom-southernmost-shabbos-earth/



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A Once-In-A-Lifetime Kosher Catered Trip To Antarctica!
A Once-In-A-Lifetime Kosher Catered Trip To Antarctica! FOMO support group

Antarctica Cruise Raffle
Antarctica Raffle #2, Fill Out This Form If You Would Like To Join A DDF Raffle!
New Antarctica Cruise Raffle! Win A Superior Cabin
Another Antarctica Raffle!

"First" in Antarctica?
Polar Zmanim On The Antarctic Cruise
Antarctica TR: the trip after Dan

Author Topic: Live Antarctica Trip Report  (Read 223219 times)

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #140 on: December 12, 2018, 07:32:59 PM »
Showing off that Dan has your number saved in his contacts?

These are from Instagram. You can follow it too.

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #141 on: December 12, 2018, 07:33:45 PM »
No don't believe so.
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #142 on: December 12, 2018, 07:33:49 PM »
Correct
Lol those are from IG, no?
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #143 on: December 12, 2018, 07:34:31 PM »
Lol those are from IG, no?
These are from Instagram. You can follow it too.
I stand corrected.

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #144 on: December 12, 2018, 08:36:10 PM »
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Moishie whacked his head into the top of a doorway,

How often does this happen?
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #145 on: December 12, 2018, 09:00:35 PM »
How often does this happen?

4 times on the boat so far, all In the same spot on my head. Imma need to get me a helmet.
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #146 on: December 13, 2018, 12:39:14 AM »
Whens the next raffle?

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #147 on: December 13, 2018, 12:48:23 AM »
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #148 on: December 13, 2018, 02:14:16 AM »
4 times on the boat so far, all In the same spot on my head. Imma need to get me a helmet.
I noticed from the picture that you also have a motion sickness patch on. Poor guy!

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #149 on: December 13, 2018, 03:10:47 AM »
You just can't plan some things...

If you would have asked me a year ago where I would be in a year, "standing on a street corner in the Flaklands teaching a former Canadian PM Yiddish" would definitely not have been my answer.
I would totally have called that
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #150 on: December 13, 2018, 05:36:43 AM »
I noticed from the picture that you also have a motion sickness patch on. Poor guy!
Most people have that

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #151 on: December 13, 2018, 07:49:20 AM »
Most people have that
As a precaution?
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #152 on: December 13, 2018, 08:31:41 AM »

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #153 on: December 13, 2018, 09:28:30 AM »
4 times on the boat so far, all In the same spot on my head. Imma need to get me a helmet.
https://youtu.be/USu8vT_tfdw

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #154 on: December 13, 2018, 10:43:38 AM »
Kiddush Levana

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #155 on: December 13, 2018, 10:57:42 AM »
How come wasnt done on M"S?


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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #156 on: December 13, 2018, 10:59:44 AM »
How come wasnt done on M"S?


They weren't sure when that would be :P
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #157 on: December 13, 2018, 11:05:03 AM »
Kiddush Levana
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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #158 on: December 13, 2018, 11:05:57 AM »

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Re: Live Antarctica Trip Report
« Reply #159 on: December 13, 2018, 11:07:14 AM »
I want pictures of the accommodations.