Adventure Travel Blogs

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Welcome to the Exodus Blog – a brand new addition to our website where you can share your amazing travel experiences with the Exodus Community.

Like adventure holidays, travel blogs can come in all shapes and sizes and can be a great source of information and inspiration. Whether you are new to adventure travel or a veteran adrenaline junkie, there’s so much you could be blogging about.

You can write about an entire holiday, a favourite destination, or maybe you’d prefer to share just one of your most inspirational travel moments... it’s completely up to you. You can also upload photos to your blog and post comments on other blog entries.

Just click on the Post Blog link to start your Exodus blogging adventure. We can’t wait to start reading about your globetrotting escapades! (Note: Please do not copy and paste from other software programs into your Blog Post, type in the Blog Post text editor, otherwise your formatting will cause issues, many thanks - the Exodus Web Team).

If you’re interested in meeting your fellow travellers online before you depart or if you’d like advice from the Exodus community about your trip, go to the Departure Lounge and post a message in our forum.

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Polar Bear Special - July 2011 - Bellsund

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 24 July 2011 - 11:43am.

Sunday, 24th July, 2011
Bellsund

“Give me this glorious ocean life, this salt-sea life, this briny, foamy life, when the sea neighs and snorts, and you breathe the very breath that the great whales respire! Let me roll around the globe, let me rock upon the sea; let me race and pant out my life, with an eternal breeze astern, and an endless sea before.”

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

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Polar Bear Special - July 2011 - Northern Spitsbergen

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 23 July 2011 - 5:13pm.

Friday, 22nd July, 2011
Northern Spitsbergen

“In memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendor, heard the text that nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

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Submitted by paulgoldstein on 22 July 2011 - 5:07pm.

Thursday 21st July, 2011
Northern Spitsbergen

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation... I wish to live deliberately and face only the essential facts of life, and learn what it has to teach and not, when it comes time to die, discover that I had not lived”
Henry David Thoreau

Oh My! I will try to keep some chronology here but it may be ...

Submitted by paulgoldstein on 21 July 2011 - 2:03pm.

Wednesday, 20th July, 2011

I have a barely coherent Ruth next to me in the communications room, it is 35 minutes past midnight and to quote her (as she is still incapable of speaking) ' this was unquestionably the best moment of my life'

She and 100 others have just had five bears on ice, the last one that paraded on a small ice island literally in the midnight sun, it was 5 metres from the hull.

This is gold, this is an exodus charter, they are different a...

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Submitted by paulgoldstein on 20 July 2011 - 4:35pm.

Tuesday, 19th July, 2011
Hinlopen Strait

“Never doubt the ability of a few committed people to change the world, in act it’s the only thing that ever has”. Margaret Mead

Play safe and follow timetables, play safe and visit post offices, play safe and die wondering, gamble and you at least give yourself a chance of touching the elusive grail.

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