Everyday Encounters: A Tiburon stop for their six-continent, 30-year marriage

Barbara and Dan Friedman sit at Shoreline Park in Tiburon on March 12. The San Francisco couple, married 30 years, recently returned from Antarctica and are planning a trip to the Arctic. (Tyler Callister / The Ark)

On a 70-degree afternoon at Shoreline Park, Dan and Barbara Friedman look like any other couple out for a stroll. They’ve just returned from Antarctica. Next stop: the Arctic.

“Some places you go to and you realize, this looks like some place we were last year,” Dan says March 12. “We don’t go to a lot of resorts, but visiting cities, one starts to get very similar to the other. We try some of the off-the-beaten-path places.”

They rode aboard a small vessel with fewer than 100 passengers through the icy waters of Antarctica — him for the photography and her for the penguins.

Dan says they’ll have crossed an important threshold once they’ve been to the Arctic Ocean.

“After we go to the Arctic, we can say we’re bipolar,” he says.

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