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Traveling Antarctica

Posted on April 20, 2020March 2, 2024 by Joel Oleson

Today we are in lockdown. Air traffic is way down over 70% of planes are downed. Travel has never been at more of a standstill in the past 100 years. Why would I want to talk about travel? If you’re like me, you never stop thinking about travel. In this new series as I’m sitting…

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South Africa’s Kruger Wild Animal Park: Wild and Wonderful

Posted on October 31, 2012October 31, 2012 by Joel Oleson

I’ve visited South Africa on three different occasions and found it incredible each time.  I would go at the drop of a hat.  I still need to take my family with me, and yes if you were wondering.  I would do that.  Something that holds a lot of people back is they are sincerely worried…

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New Baby Penguin First Encounter Footage from Antarctica

Posted on May 31, 2012June 3, 2012 by Joel Oleson

The most popular comment right now on my baby penguin youtube video is an upset viewer comment saying… “I can’t believe you &^%$ stopped filming!” A lot of the traffic I’m getting right now is traffic from my popular baby penguin video filmed on a trip to Antarctica where I met a baby penguin that…

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Viral Baby Penguin Travel Video Goes Mainstream

Posted on May 23, 2012July 22, 2013 by Joel Oleson

In my previous post, I shared how my traffic on my baby penguin video started to take off.  I was getting requests from various people asking them if they could use my video, and others looking for rights.  Analyzing the traffic was fascinating.  The 15 minutes of fame as one commenter mentioned continues as the…

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Behind the Scenes: Baby Penguin Meets Human for the First Time

Posted on May 22, 2012July 21, 2013 by Joel Oleson

On Saturday I noticed I was getting a bunch of comments on my baby penguin video, a video recorded from a SharePoint trip to Antarctica.  I blogged about my travel, photos, and videos on a travel post Antarctica the final frontier. I LOVE to travel and hope you enjoy my travel blog http://travelingepic.com .  I’ve…

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Antarctica the Ultimate Final Frontier in Travel

Posted on April 22, 2012February 18, 2013 by Joel Oleson

As a global traveller, on this planet there is nothing more remote than Antarctica.  It is way bigger than it looks on any common map.  That place is just so vast. 14 million square miles and 1.5 times the size of the U.S. and is 98% ice and 2% barren rock.  In fact we learn that…

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