Going South

Robert Falcon Scott - 1st South Pole explorer








Wow... finally after 8 - 9 days the weather is finally warm enough to fly. So I have bag drag tonight at 7 and leave in the morning. Bad drag is literally just that - it's where we take our bags from where we're staying now and taking it down to the terminal to check in and we dress in all our gear and carry-on and get weighed in. There will be 40 of us on the C130. We're finally going. I'm sooo excited, yet a bit nervous. It's still about -78F and a little windy there. I got the temperature conversions... The good thing though is that once we arrive, we have the rest of the day off to climatize to the altitude which is about 9000 feet but with pressue can be up to 12,000 feet. So it just depends on the air pressure. Anyway, I'll kind of lucky to have almost a full day of recovery since I don't work until nightshift. Although I hope I can stay awake the first few nights of work!

I think I'll always rememeber those words - going South. That reminds me of the the words 'going North' which was referred to going North from Kuwait to Iraq in Gulf 2. Anyway, I think this will be more fun than playing Army in the desert. Although very cold!

There were 3 planes that landed at the Pole today. Amazingly enough, today is the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Scott's trip to the Pole. He's the statue in the picture which was taken at the botanical garden in Christchurch, New Zealand.