While traveling in the States, I visited my alma mater (my wife lives just down the street, so it isn’t exactly out of the way). I walked around with my father, telling him stories and remembering friends from when I was there. That kind of thing is always humbling, because it just seems like I know so many neat people doing amazing things.
Karina Leppik (photo), a fellow Physics major and good friend, is still down in Antarctica (journal). What an experience! I’ve spent a few weeks out in the Alaskan bush, and must admit that the move to England has been a new and different experience, but living out on an ice cube for a year… wow. How cool is that?
The first time Karina was out there, I got a small video clip of a barbershop quartet singing I’ll be Home for Christmas around the South Pole. As her journal has progressed, we’ve now had a chance to see things like sunset and sunrise on the South Pole. Karina, I want hi-res copies of your pictures someday…