Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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BT – Place and proportion

Antarctica is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, … *

Although I had loaded some maps of Antarctica onto my phone, I didn’t really get a sense of perspective from these, nor were they detailed […]

BT – Kayaking near Danco Island

One of the things I had been really looking forward to doing in Antarctica was undertaken on our first afternoon. Over lunch we had moved further south to Danco Island (S64°44′ W62°36′), and it was here that we were scheduled to go kayaking. [On this trip about 96 of the passengers wanted to go kayaking, and […]

BT – Cuverville Island

[Caveats: This is where the number of photos starts to get out of hand. Antarctica is magnificent and atmospheric. Penguins are very photogenic. The consequence of these and other related facts is that I took over 1800 photos on the Antarctic leg of the Big Trip. You’re not going to see all of them. You may, […]