Today we are sailing from Greenland to Newfoundland. There’s dense fog and occasional rain. We don’t see sky, we can hardly see water. We’re just pushing through an oceanic white-out. So we keep ourselves entertained on the ship. Today there was a question and answer period in the theater with the captain. When asked what experience he has navigating in these difficult arctic waters, he flipped, “Well, I took this Internet course last week …”. Yesterday, when we sailed out of Nanortalik into an intimidating fogbank, a fellow passenger looked at it and mused: “How exciting! Soon we will see other ships that disappeared hundreds of years ago …”.