Off on the next adventure
Northern Lights in Alaska 2016
Poor John and I are sitting in Sydney Airport. In less than an hour we’ll be on the way to Shanghai, China.
Over the next six weeks we’ll be in Xian and Beijing, then on the Trans-Mongolian Railway. That 19-day train ride will include stays in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, as well three stays in Russia—Irkutsz, Moscow and St Petersburg.
Then we stop in Sweden before 10 days in glorious Iceland. The saying goes that Iceland is green and Greenland is ice.
We’ll be staying with special friends and hope to see the Northern Lights. We saw them a in Alaska early last year and all the pics are from that trip.
I’ll post as often as I can, but no guarantees. Internet connections are likely to be rare.
Apologies in advance if you don’t see much of me on your blogs.
Where to next? 
Where in Alaska did you see them?
Best regards,
Christopher Bartlett
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We were north of Coldfoot.
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This is really beautiful, Peggy 🙂
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I know. Hoping to see more like it.
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There I was only yesterday trying poached eggs, and now I have to cope with your whirlwind Trans-Mongolian Railway adventure.
Far out Peggy!
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Thanks Gerard. Sorry to keep you on the hop. 🙂
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Enjoy! I’ve travelled on that train many many years ago on my way to study in Finland. Would be interesting to hear about your experience.
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I look forward to sharing it.
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Have a great trip 😉 You may be lucky and see them, the timing is good 😉 you pictures are beautiful. I remember our trips to Iceland and this amazing experience ☺️
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We have 10 days in Iceland, so our chances of seeing the Northern Lights are fairly good.
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That´s true! Good luck 🙂 Hopefully, you are going to have great time 🙂
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All the best for happy and safe travels. I can’t wait to read and see all about it in your inimitable style with wonderful photos.
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Thanks Louise, sorry I ran out of time to get things to you.
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Enjoy. Looking forward to reading about it – eventually!
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Yes, eventually.
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I’ll be following you through you blog and camera lens (as usual)
Have a great trip, and as usual you know you are making me very jealous
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Thanks Derrick, now there’s a new trip for you to do!
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Safe travelling, Peggy. That train ride sounds like a winner already. I’m envious of the Sweden/Iceland segment.
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Really looking forward to the whole shebang.
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Great pics. Enjoy your trip
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Thanks so much.
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Je vous souhaiterez un très bon voyage! That is indeed an awe inspiring list of places that you will be visiting. I love Russia which is something I seldom shout about but as you, wise traveler know, it is not the politics that make the country. There is also the possibility that I will be in China in the next few weeks …. ekes gazikes, we might bump into each other – hey it’s only a vast land … surely two little pinpricks might! Its all up in the air at the moment and slightly dependent on the timings of the Husband with Two Brains’ next trip to Greenland (where he is building an observatory. As you do). Anyway enough of my ramblings about little miss me, me, me – the main thing is lovely miss you, you, you and Poor John and the fact that I wish you a fabulous trip and want you to know that I will miss you whilst you are gone. So there 🌸
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When you get to China wave regularly and furiously. I’ll do the same and perhaps we will find one another. By the way, Poor John also has two brains.
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Excellent … the Four Brains may be the key!!! X
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I think four brains might be the answer.
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The photos of the Northern Lights are so beautiful – it must have been spectacular to see them in person. Have a wonderful long adventure all over the world. I’ll see you when you are able to check in here.
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Thanks Sharon. Hope to be able to drop in regularly.
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Sounds like a great trip!
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We hope so. 🙂
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What an amazing trip! And I absolutely love these photos. The Northern Lights always look so magical, I’m hoping to see them one day. 🙂 Hope you have an amazing time. xxx
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The Northern Lights are truly awe-inspiring. Hope we see them again.
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Beautiful pictures Peggy have a safe trip and enjoy although I am sure you will…Look forward to seeing and hearing about your travels…Have fun !
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Pity you couldn’t meet us here in Bangkok Airport. We board our flight to Shanghai in 30 minutes.
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Oh! If I had known…Any excuse to hop on a plane to bangers…Have a wonderful time 🙂
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We’ll be back through Bangers in the middle of November but the layover is short. Should we try to meet?
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What a trip! I hope you have a fantastic time. 🙂
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Thanks so much. Sitting in Bangkok Airport at the moment.
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Sounds like an amazing trip.
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We’re excited about it.
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Oh, I am sorely jealous! The rail trip (that I’d LOVE to take), Sweden, and yes, glorious little Iceland. Have a great time!
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Thanks. We’re looking forward to it all.
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Peggy, Beijing is s big, busy, and noisy, but the museums and Forbidden city are fab. Also, The Xian Warriors are one of my favorite antiquities in the world, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. Have a great trip. ~ James
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We are well-versed in the hubbub of Beijing, but Xian is new to us. Looking forward to it all.
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Not the worst airport I’ve ever been in, but Sydney isn’t the most exciting either, as airports go. My Son and his wife were in China not too long ago, the Forbidden City was teh place to be. Hope ytou have a wonderful time.
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This is our third time to Beijing but a first to Shanghai.
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Somehow missed that detail, you’ll definitely know what you’re up for
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So far, Shanghai seems to be all about shopping and that’s not our thing.
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Don’t eat it unless there’s pictures of what it is. The best thing about Greenland is that from the air it makes a great landmark. Be safe.
Reporter: Tell me, how did you find America?
John Lennon: Turned left at Greenland?
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Also useful to point to whatever is on the plate of the person at the next table.
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Looks like a great backdrop for Halloween. Love Iceland – enjoy your trip!
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Oh yes, perfect for Halloween.
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Have a wonderful trip! I’ve seen the Northern Lights several times in Canada and Greenland, and they never get old for me.
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I don’ think they’ll ever get old for us either.
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Have a safe and fabulous trip.( No more getting knocked over.)
Will catch up when you’re back, to hear all about it, I hope!
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See you around Christmas?
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A trip I have always dreamed about. Enjoy, Peggy. –Curt
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Thanks Curt. You dream about this and I’ll dream about Burning Man.
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Deal. 🙂
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Fantastic travel plans…I loved Iceland. My husband and I spent 9 days in a camper van travelling the Ring-road around Iceland. Unfortunately we did not see the NL…I hope you will have more luck😄
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It will be dark enough for them to be visible, so the rest will depend on the weather. Fingers crossed.
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I’m very excited for you! 🙂
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Thanks, me too.
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Doesn’t sound like much of an adventure 😉. Can’t wait to read about it.
Great photos of the northern lights.
Safe travels.
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Thanks so much. We’re excited about it all.
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Safe travels. Who has the dog?
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Thanks. There are a couple of people staying in the house while we are away.
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No worries Peggy! You do more than anyone I’ve ever known and I still haven’t worked out how you do it! Do you want the glacé fruit cake again this year?
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Libby says she wants to make a cake this year, but we’ll donate for a nun’s cake.
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Look forward to these posts Peggy. I am interested to see what you get up too, Safe travels to you both. Louise – still recovering from jet lag.
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Thanks Louise. Hope you perk up soon.
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Will two cakes be too many? If you’re going to make a donation I’d prefer that you receive something and I’m happy to make one given that you’re such a busy household all year round. If so, which one would you like?
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Which ever you prefer to make. There are always hungry takers.
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Have a magnificent time Peggy. Can’t wait to hear of your adventures.
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Thanks Brenda. Have spent a wonderful day sightseeing in Shanghai and the evening wrestling with WordPress and the internet in general.
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Already another adventure? I need to catch up with my reading of the last of the African one first 🙂 Safe travels – sounds wonderful.
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Oh, I still have almost a year’s worth of posts to write about Africa. I’ll never catch up.
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That’s the most comforting thing I’ve heard in a long time!
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Oh this sounds like an amazing trip. Have a fabulous time!
Alison
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Thanks. It should be a pretty easy one. I hope.
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I am so relieved you are FINALLY off on another adventure since I am living vicariously through you and I’m tired of sitting and waiting!
Have a safe trip.
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Oops, sorry to have dragged the travel chain. 🙂 Glad you are along for the ride.
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You really have to adopt me so that I go on your travels 🙂 Bon voyage
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I’ll look into the paperwork!:)
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Yet another amazing trip. I am so envious of your travels, Peggy. (Well, maybe not the camping, travelling in an old truck, or ‘roughing it’ in your inimitable style. 🙂 )
The northern lights were visible last year here, twenty miles away, on the Norfolk coast. Unfortunately, I didn’t know until I watched the news the next day!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks Pete. We’ve reached Beijing and are looking forward to starting the railway on the 17th. By the time we get to Iceland, we hope the Northern Lights are going strong most nights.
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What a wonderful adventure! All the best on your travels. I look forward to regular updates.
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Not sure how regular the updates will be. Finding decent internet is a huge challenge.
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So exciting!!!! 😀 wishing you a wonderful trip… Much love & all my best wishes 🙂
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Thanks so much. So far, so good!
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How fun! Enjoy and be safe!!
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Thanks! Every day is a mini adventure.
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How beautiful!
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Thanks. The Northern Lights really are amazing.
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I once saw the Northern Lights while visiting my parents in North Dakota. I can’t wait to get the kids north enough to see them, too. 🙂 Blessings on your journey! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Thanks Jean. We won’t be close to the Northern Lights until November, so plenty of time for the skies to get darker.
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Fabulous photos. What a wonderful journey you’re about to experience. Enjoy enjoy enjoy. ❤ looking forward to the fantastic tour will take us on upon your return. Wishing you safety and energy. That's the longest train ride I've ever heard of. 🙂
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Thanks Nancy. The journey, with three overnight stops, lasts for 19 days. I think only 10–11 nights are on the train. We’re trying to figure out how to cater for ourselves. I may lose weight. 🙂
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Safe travels. I really enjoyed your pictures and story of the Northern Lights last year. Hope you have a chance to see them again.
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I hope so too. We don’t reach Iceland until November, so we hope the sky is dark enough and the weather is good enough for a decent viewing.
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What an exciting amount of travel both with regard to the particular places and amount of time…Look forward to reading all about it. Safe travels and enjoy enjoy.
Peta
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Thanks so much. We board the first train in about two hours.
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The grandeur continues! Say hi to the Ulans (Bator & Ude). P’raps a vodka with Vlad?? If you happen to stroll through the all-star cemetery in Moscow and happen to run into Dmitri Shostakovich, please give him my best! Also, Reykjavik in November is most pleasing. Blue Lagoon on the way to the airport is positively therapeutic. Gullfoss is profound. Joyful travels to you both!
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Thanks Brian, hope to manage all of the above.
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I have just been to Iceland..loved it!!However, I didn’t get to see the Northern Lights and I am quite sad 😦
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So glad you liked Iceland, but sorry you didn’t get to see the Northern Lights.
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this pics are beautiful! enjoy your trip
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Thanks so very much. Everything is good so far.
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Thanks for following my blog:), hopefully you gonna enjoy it:)
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My pleasure. I’m sure I will.
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What an amazing adventure you have planned – hope to hear all about it and looking forward to the photos. The Trans Siberian Railroad – wow!!
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It is Wow. Having a great time.
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Happy Trails!!!
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Thanks so much.
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Great pictures 👏👏
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Thanks so much.
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Sounds like a fantastic adventure! When you have some time I’d be grateful if you would check out my blog at mcgeetraveltales.com. Thank you and safe travels!
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Thanks for stopping by. I’ll check out your blog now and look more closely when I’m home and have a more reliable connection.
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Thank you!
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Bon Voyage, Peggy.
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Thanks so much. We are having a great time.
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have an amazing time –
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Thanks, we’re in Moscow now and having a fantastic time.
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Amazing
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Beautiful pix! Iceland was one of our favorite trips ever. We saw the Northern Lights and I almost started crying. Haha Have a great trip!
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We loved Iceland too, and saw the Northern Lights twice! I wrote about them here. They weren’t quite as large or as ongoing as the sightings in Alaska, but still breathtaking.
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These pictures are amazing!!
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Thanks so much.
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have an awesome trip. looking forward to future posts
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Thanks so much. Hope you are able to follow along.
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What a busy schedule you have, it sounds amazing!
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Thanks. We like to keep busy.
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