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| In the beginning, there was a boat, the ice-breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer, en route to a summer in Antarctica, and with space for about twenty students on the transit across the Pacific ocean. |
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| We left from Port Hueneme, which seemed oddly appropriate given how close I used to live. |
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| We spent nearly a full day in port before departure. The islands in the distance are the Channel Islands, which I had spent a week on a little over a year ago. |