At an age when many are settling into retirement, two Texas grandmothers embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, circling the globe in just 80 days. Defying expectations for their age group, 81-year-old Ellie Hamby and 81-year-old Sandy Hazelip completed an ambitious itinerary that took them across all seven continents in a modern-day homage to Jules Verne’s classic novel. The around the world 80 days journey began on January 11th in Antarctica, where the pair navigated the treacherous Drake Passage to reach the southernmost continent. “For almost two days, we were rocking and rolling and slipping and sliding through the