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Luca van Dam's avatar

I love learning about extraordinary people! They inspire and move the bar about what is possible! Even more amazing when those people are great leaders! I never even know anything about Shackleton until I read about him in “Into the Planet”! Beautiful writing about him!

Oh Robert! I was watching the weather last night and saw that cold front and snow coming on the north east side of the US and I am sure that will hit you too, so I thought about you! I traveled to Toronto in the winter when my mother in law was still alive and I remember how miserably cold I was all the time! No matter how many layers I put on! While I was born and raised in the mountains of Transylvania, I got whimpified in California for the last 25 years! I have a guest room in San Francisco Bay Area, if you need to thaw out for a bit!

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Jill Heinerth-Robert McClellan's avatar

Thanks for the offer, Luca. I lived most of my adult life in warm climes - Spain, California, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc...and settled in Florida. I met a Canadian girl there and she kidnapped me to frosty Ontario! We have an agreement - each January, when I am getting the SADS and depressed, we spend a month in warm weather. We are heading to the Algarve in Portugal this year...I am counting the days. Cheers and warm regards!!

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Luca van Dam's avatar

That’s sounds very fair to me! My wife is from Ontario too and I told her that BC is the only province I will consider should we need to move although as it is looking right now, pretty soon I will be ready to move in with the polar bears in Nunavut! I’ll build my own igloo! Hang in there until Portugal!

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