Friday night, and we’re ready. As ready as we’re going to be. Davor, Mariusz, Susan, Tom and the rest have given us all the preparation they can cram into two […]

Second day of briefings. Somehow there are too many people and too few chairs this morning, and we have to improvise, squeezing in even tighter, elbow to elbow. But it’s […]

Thursday passed in a cocoon. Got picked up by the bus at 8:20, shuttled to Mamba Point Hotel for briefings. And more briefings. Security briefings. Procedural briefings. Legal briefings. I […]

[Doing much better today, but haven’t had a chance to write. Including, instead, some notes from last night.] Security briefing packet we’re handed on the bus into town is sobering […]

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm so far out of  my comfort zone I'm wondering if I left it in the overhead luggage compartment back at Roberts Airfield. It's been an […]

Yup – I guess that's one of the gifts of age: having a better grip on the owner's manual of that mysterious device called "your body". Curled up as best […]

This has been a strangely uneasy start. Usually there's a certain poetry to departures, something evoke the oft-misattributed quotation about how, once you have committed, the world lays a path […]