Before I say anything else, can I just mention that I'm writing this post using a hotspot from my T-Mobile phone, where I'm getting free international data while on a boat cruising around Svalbard, just several hundred miles from the North Pole? Is the world incredible, or what?!
As I hinted at above, I'm spending this weekend visiting Longyearbyen, the northernmost city in the world. I've been dreaming of visiting this place for years, and it sure hasn't disappointed. Yesterday I was still going back and forth about how I felt about it, though today we did a day trip to a "ghost town," which is a former Russian mining village. It's probably the most incredible day trip I've ever taken. National Geographic rates it one of the world's 10 most interesting ghost towns. I'll have more on that in a post tomorrow.
We're here for another couple of days, and then we're off to Russia, which I'm equally excited about. This is a heck of a week of travel for me, and I hope you guys are having an equally fun weekend.
