A Good Thing

My recycling-professional friend has been on a search to find something Not-Plastic to replace plastic water bottles. She found a nice lightweight stainless steel one at a professional conference, and picked one up for me. I like it very much, although I'm going to order the sports cap because it's too hard to drink from it while driving or walking - the mouth is 1 3/4 inches across. FYI.

http://www.kleankanteen.com/

amazing-sounding trip

Wow. Just wow. That would be so much fun.

Just dreaming.

THE ANTARCTICA
On this 19-day February whirlwind tour of the Falkland Islands, the South Orkneys, the South Shetlands, Elephant Island, and South Georgia Island, you'll be hanging with the most impressive roster of guides we've seen yet. Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and Caroline Alexander, author of The Endurance, will be present, as will a half-dozen top-tier geologists, biologists, historians, and a photographer, all specialists in Antarctica. Oh, and the wandering albatross, king penguins, hundreds of pelagic birds, sea lions, and icebergs will be there, too. Outfitter: Wilderness Travel, 800-368-2794, www.wildernesstravel.com