Adam Kramer

PICTURESQUE PATAGONIA The Kramer family made a stop on their way to Antarctica to check off another bucket-list experience: Torres del Paine National Park in Chile’s Patagonia. Pictured, from left, are Dylan, Jennifer, Adam, and Hayden Kramer. “Torres” means towers in Spanish, and Paine means “blue” in the native Mapuche language.

The family gets their first glimpse of Antarctica at a broad-daylight midnight landing at the Chilean research station on King George Island.

The Kramer family with a gentoo penguin colony on the shores of the Antarctic peninsula.

(From left) Gary Cohen, Lisa Cohen, Stephanie Kramer, Catherine Holste, Brent Swaim, Joe Duman, Susan Duman and Adam Kramer rang in 2016 in a delicious, unique way. Their meal was modeled around the popular TV show “Chopped” format. (Not pictured): Laurie Swaim, Randy Holste.