Sailing on a 66-foot boat from Argentina to Antarctica might not be on your bucket list. But when opportunity knocks, you answer. That’s Growing Bolder.

Our Wendy Chioji has been answering opportunity and saying yes to adventures for decades, and recently, that led to her to a very special expedition. Wendy was part of an 11-person crew that sailed through the dreaded Drake Passage, to several of the South Shetland Islands, to the continent of Antarctica and back.

The trip on the Ocean Tramp from Quixote Expeditions took nearly a month and delivered a lifetime of memories.