I had some leftover scholarship money from college as did other folks in my program so we put together a 3 week trip between fall finals and spring classes - on

I had some leftover scholarship money from college as did other folks in my program so we put together a 3 week trip between fall finals and spring classes - one week backpacking in Torres del Paine in Patagonian Chile, then two weeks on a cruise exploring the Antarctic peninsula. We were the youngest people on the cruise by far, since the kind of folks who tend to go to Antarctica are well-heeled people who have been literally everywhere else. The two strangers I made the best acquaintance with were the 2003 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, and the CFO of Arthur Andersen, or rather the penultimate CFO who left about a year before the Enron scandal broke. We had a lot of time to pass between the island landings and played what scant board games existed in the ship's cabinets (this wasn't a Carnival Cruise, it was more like a repurposed Soviet research vessel that had good food and no other comforts). I teased the CFO about losing Monopoly to me repeatedly. The CFO was a great guy though, he helped commemorate my favorite moment of the trip. During a landing on the peninsula I was standing in a group of Adelie penguins and I stripped off my parka to reveal a dress tuxedo beneath my clothes, trying to blend in better. It was a great photo.