Ach – I forgot to post pictures of our little Hanukkah celebration. Zondra, Michelle, me and Isaac with the makeshift menorah Improvisation under necessity: M&Ms for coins, and a dreidelfabricated […]

Yeah, I said I was going to stop posting every day, but it’s been a newsworthy couple of days – Michelle and I started a fire in the galley last […]

Remember how I mentioned The Traverse a while back? Well, they’re at the foot of the Leverette glacier now, and have been stuck there for a couple of days. Crazy […]

Okay, I got a ton of email that can be summarized “WTF sturgeon!?!?”  (i.e. “What’s the frozen sturgeon?”).  I figure I’ve got to offer some elaboration. The ice tunnels branch […]

It’s been one month today – since I stepped out onto the ice runway at McMurdo and into this crazy world of Antarctic life. Seems like a lifetime, and still […]

(Or, “Chapter 57, in which Mapcon makes me sad“) Okay, I promise, I really promise, that I’m going to start getting outdoors and posting stories and pictures of penguins and […]

Saturday was “Pole T-Day”. A I mentioned before, we normally don’t get Saturday off, so holidays are typically pushed to Saturday to give us a cherished two-day weekend. Thurs and […]

The tourists have arrived.   Yesterday afternoon, trying not to slice my fingers off trimming CD labels with the paper cutters (See? The D-8 drivers and Ice drillers aren’t the […]

Friday morning here, after a restless, disorienting night’s sleep. It’s still Thursday back home, the morning of Thanksgiving Day, but we’re not celebrating until tomorrow, which will be my son […]

[originally was to have been posted yesterday…] There are many things buried here in the Antarctic ice. Secrets, yes, but also mangled tractor parts, bedframes, an Encyclopedia Brittanica, and at […]