Archive for the World Travels category
Africa
Hell’s Gate National ParkIt’s great being back in Africa again. It’s about four months later in the year than my last trip, which means that everything is so much greener than it was last time. Against my independent spirit, I’ve decided to go ahead and sign up with Oasis Overland for another quick tour. I’m [...]
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Australia and NZ
Western Australia
Western Australia had been the only part of Oz I hadn’t seen yet, so I decided to take a quick trip over to Perth and see what it was all about. Perth is a really nice city, and I think my second favorite in Oz, after Melbourne. At night especially, I got [...]
Australia and NZ
Byron Bay roadtripAfter arriving in Canberra, Australia, I immediately met up with an old friend, Virgina. She’s a great friend that I spent a lot of time with in Mongolia, and it was great to catch up with her and her room-mate, Rebecca, who also hails from Mongolia. We spent the first couple of days just hanging [...]
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Antarctica
Leaving…on a prop planeI never thought I’d be so happy to see a plane as I was today when Skier 96, P024 landed to take me away from here. It’s been a good winter, not as good as my last one, but then we were a very special crew back in 2002. My replacement just got [...]
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Antarctica
New facesWe officially opened yesterday with our first two flights of C-130s. Our population has doubled in just two short hours, and the effects are huge! The galley is completely crowded again, and you actually have to wait for a table sometimes. All the new people are way too tanned, but us winterovers [...]
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Antarctica
Sunrise and big news!So the sun has finally risen, and all is good with the world. One of best benefits of this time of year is the amount of natural lighting coming in thru the new station’s windows. The lighting fixtures in the berthing rooms are some of the worst I’ve ever seen. The [...]
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Antarctica
Here comes the sunThe weather continues to be mostly lousy, but we’ve had a few breaks that let us see that there is an amazing sunrise going on behind the haze. I went out last Sunday and took this picture around 11:00 at night. We really couldn’t have asked for better conditions on our day off. [...]
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Antarctica
Getting closeWell, the biggest news in my world lately is that I’m now scheduled to get out of here around the 1st of November, a good week sooner than I’d expected! That means that I’ve done 76% of my time down here, and the rest is going to be a cakewalk. Life continues [...]
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Antarctica
About frigging time!You see that picture? Doesn’t look very impressive, but do you see that little bit of light on the horizon? That’s the sun! After nearly five months of darkness, today was the first day we could actually detect the fact that we’re on our way back to the daytime. I didn’t [...]
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Antarctica
Salad Bar!One of the most remarkable things that’s happened in the past month or so has been that our new hydroponic green house has started full time production. The old one (which is still going) was able to generate enough stuff for us to have about one small salad a week. The new [...]
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