Category: Newsletter

It’s past time for my February newsletter! Thanks to everyone who has subscribed. We’re more than 400 Antarctica interested folks. Feel free to forward to friends and family who might like to follow. I hope to get up to 1000 interested friends, family, and friends of family/friends by the end of the year. First Third: Read More …

Pole Where last we had left off on my January adventures I had just arrived at “pole”, snowmobiled out to the telescope 800m from station, and begun my software training. It was January 8, and I had to pee. I discovered Diamox, the anti-altitude sickness medicine, makes one want to pee a lot, which is compounded Read More …

Well it’s time for a long overdue first tiny letter from Antarctica! This is part 1/2 of my January.    Prequel Getting here was the first part of the adventure. I flew from LAX January 1, where I said a tearful goodbye to Casey, to Sydney, Australia.  His family helpfully picked me up from he Read More …

It’s been a busy time preparing for the pole. Thanks to all 120 people (so far) who have agreed to follow my journey. Feel free to reply directly, it will never be a bother as I’m sure I’ll love external to the Antarctic continent interaction. I set things up as a newsletter to encourage one-on-one Read More …

Right now I’m deep in administration to prepare to go down to the Pole. I had several meetings to get all the paperwork approved for my fellowship leave (both from the NSF and from Caltech), my health insurance on hold, and attempts to put my cell phone plan on hold (which resulted in the following Read More …