James: In the days leading up to my tall ship sail from Cape Horn to Cape Town, I came across an article on Lonely Planet – “How to prepare for the perfect voyage to Antarctica.” I printed it off and when it was time to leave the condo for three months, I snapped a...

Mirriam: There were a few times I wanted to stop this whole project. I was fed up with all of J’s questions. “No, I don’t remember that name, or that face, or the weather, or what I was thinking long ago. How do you expect me to remember what it smelled like?!” Not to...

James: I have a box in our home that is full of ragged notebooks. All told there are over 50 of them. The oldest was purchased for 39 pence at a convenience store in Edinburgh, over 25 years ago, a day or two after my arrival in Scotland to complete the third year of...