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Tamara Enz

The Road not Taken Enough is the road I most often want to be on. Join me?

Svenskehuset

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The hike 15 October      Coal Miner’s Inn, Longyearbyen Sitting now with a Spitsbergen IPA and some gifted crackers and dried figs. Longyearbyen is brown and soggy as the lovely snow of two […]

Winding down

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Notes and views For open water, the chairs [in the dining/common area] are bungee-ed to the floor so they can only slide a small distance. Flat surfaces, other than the dining tables, […]

Uncharted water

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Uncharted pop-culture We moved the other night, from the beach with the sand and glacier cubes to the north into another fjord. Anchoring on one side of Lloyd’s Hotel (Möllerfjorden), we did […]