4 Flights, One Limo, 2 Buses and a Zodiac

We arrived late this afternoon in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland (a town that boasts it has 1/3rd of all the roads in Greenland and home to an ex-US military base) where we boarded our home away from home, the National Geographic Explorer. Along the way we were only delayed once when our flight from Ottawa to Kangerlussuaq was delayed about 90 minutes because of "windshield issues". Last night we stayed in Ottawa and had to be up at 4:00am this morning for our flight. Tonight, its cold and wet, but we are nice and warm in our cabin and settling in. We just shared dinner with one of the National Geographic photographers, Ralph Lee Hopkins, from Santa Fe, New Mexico and another couple we met, Eleanor Musick and Abe Ordover, a photography gallery owner from Solana Beach, CA. Most of the people on the ship seem to be from the US with a smattering of Brits. Because this ship has an elevator, there seems to be a higher percentage of "older folk". Tonight we set sail at 11pm up the 90 mile long fjord (3rd longest in Greenland) to the open sea where we will dock at Sisimiut, Greenland tomorrow afternoon.