As a child, I sat on the floor of my grandmother's house looking through volume after volume of National Geographic. The photos transported me to amazing places filled with plants, animals and people. My imagination filled in the gaps for the words I could not read. I told my grandma I was going to visit those places and then ran out the door pretending to explore. Those memories encouraged me to become a National Geographic Educator in 2020 and that experience led Mark and me to travel on the Class II icebreaker, National Geographic Resolution, bound for Antarctica.
The expedition began in Pu...
