Well here we go again. Same continent, different mission. I'm currently in the Denver airport after the first leg of a marathon of flights. I left Kansas at 11 am CST, and I won't arrive in Christchurch, New Zealand until 6:30pm (Kansas time) on Tuesday. Yes, that is indeed over a day straight of non-stop travel.
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| I guess NSF couldn't find me a direct ticket to LAX, so I get to enjoy a two hour layover in Denver. |
I'll be gone roughly two months, and currently I am not scheduled to get home until early/mid January. There's a total of four of us from KU travelling, three faculty and staff and one student. We also have several colleagues from NASA and other organizations on our team, so all told there will be about a dozen of us. This year I'll be stationed at McMurdo Station until early/mid December at which point we will be going down to South Pole Station for two weeks. We'll then return to McMurdo for another two weeks. This time around we will only be flying on manned aircraft with our radar systems. Admittedly in 2011 I felt like a real bad ass telling people we were flying an 1,100 UAV around Antarctica; however, I am excited to fly on the Basler so I can see more of the continent. That said, I'm sure many vomit inducing flights lie ahead.
For anyone in NE Kansas, go hang out with Cooper and Bowie. I miss them both dearly, and our goats are a bunch of assholes so they'll need some friendly faces. Our neighbor promised to have chicken noodle soup with him every Thursday night (😉), but other than that they should be free.
Hopefully next post will come from somewhere much farther south.
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