BadNick

When I first saw this thread title, I immediately thought "Antarctica". But actually I would love a chance to go anywhere to explore archaeology, ancient history, biology, anthropology. If they would take me, I'd consider doing this after I retire from my daily grind and my children are more on their own. Amazon is high on my list; parts of Mexico and Central America; parts of Africa and Asia too. But I have no interest in going someplace with touchy security problems or where too much politics come into play.

A couple years ago I became particularly intrigued with going to Antarctica since I was involved in a project to produce a special kind of safety valve that was eventually installed at some South Pole scientific stations, it's a protection device for some of the mechanical systems that could be destroyed if a power failure occured during the "winter" when many of the stations are not manned and operate on "auto" mode. So there is a chance I could go there one day for some technical reasons. Being involved with that, some personnel working there showed me the link below.

Strange Famous,
if you haven't seen this already, check out the huge database of pics and stories and blog-type stuff from some of the scientific stations in Antarctica. You'll have to hunt around this link http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jacara/d...005/index.html but the gallery is an interesting place to start: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jacara/galleries.php One of the series of pics I liked was when the heat failed in one of the storage buildings holding several months worth of wine, hundreds of cases of wine all broken and splattered all over the ice, and the hunt to find the few unbroken bottles and then drinking them all up.