The Hidden Side Of Antarctica Expeditions

Let Erin and Phil book this same experience for you, personally! We started ABC Trips to offer our bespoke itineraries to those seeking authentic culture, epic landscapes, and uncompromising luxury. 👉🏼 https://abctrips.com Nine months after opening registration for our first group trip and five days into that adventure, our family is finally about to step foot on our seventh continent this year. If you missed our previous episode, where we began our antarctic voyage on the luxurious Seabourn Venture, you might want to start there, but now we’re about to sail this Class 6 expedition ship into an ancient volcano, get up-close and personal with our first colony of penguins, plow through a sea of ice (with a little help from me), and open water kayak in search of some rare glacial ice that we can use to craft thousand-year-old cocktails back onboard. But will this be the day we’re called up for the Polar Plunge? Hit the Subscribe button and notifications bell so that you don’t miss Part 2 of this episode, where we cross the Antarctic Circle, take the Polar Plunge farther south than any previous Seabourn voyage, sail through Antarctica’s most Instagramable backdrop, and finally capture a piece of that glacial ice that provides a once-in-a-lifetime beverage experience for our entire group. And remember: if you’d like to join our family on one of our upcoming group trips around the world — or if you’d like us to curate an epic trip just for you, get in touch at followabc.com/trips Contents: 0:00 Intro 00:38 Deception Island 09:42 Hot Tubbing 10:51 Brown Bluff Landing 15:05 Adélie Penguin Colony 16:20 Icebreaker 21:28 Whale Spotting 22:35 Trinity Island 29:14 Seabourn Venture Experience 33:07 Sea Kayaking With Penguins 36:57 To be continued... Since 2020, we’ve been traveling the world to experience—up close and in person—all the natural wonders and distinct cultures that our kids would otherwise see only in textbooks and TV. We think it’s a better way to learn and we’ve worked hard to fund our little experiment in the hope that our kids will grow up wiser, kinder, and more grateful for the beauty of our diverse planet and its people. In 2025, we started ABC Trips to help travelers experience the world the way we do—deeply, intentionally, and without the stress of figuring everything out alone. After years of full-time travel, expedition cruising, luxury hotels, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences with our family, we realized something: the hardest part of epic travel isn’t the destination—it’s the decisions. Which ship actually gets you more time on the ice? Which safari lodge delivers real wildlife encounters? Which “bucket list” experiences are worth the money… and which are just hype? ABC Trips exists to cut through the noise. We plan and host thoughtfully curated journeys built around firsthand experience, honest recommendations, and moments that actually move the needle—whether that’s setting foot on Antarctica, tracking wildlife in Africa, or discovering cultures in a way that feels human, not herded. Our LinkTree: https://abctrips.com/linktree Brand Collabs: https://abctrips.com/collab