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Hey Scott
Current plans are to find somewhere warm. We have found what we think is a quaint town in Australia. It’s just below the tropic of Capricorn and seems like a great place to vacation, something we haven’t done for a while. If all goes well we’ll rent a house there and just relax for 5 weeks. Then back to California for 2 weeks at Christmas, then to the east coast with a quick stop in Florida to visit an old Antartic friend. Then back here in Mid-January. We are seeing light on the horizon these days, but it’s still pretty much night all the time still. Temps are pretty regularly between -20 and -30. The coldest so far has been -43 quite a bit warmer than last year (knock on wood). Here is a composite photo I took the other day. It was taken at 2pm in the afternoon.
Great photo!!!
So you will be in sunny California. I suppose not off the beaten track in Sacramento?
I guess the only way I’ll run into you both is if I spring for the $12,000 trip on one of the cruise ships to McMurdo; no, wait, you are wintering over!
Well, put Sacramento on the map when you are 95 years old and looking for someplace HOT. It was 112 in mid July this year. That heat will boil out all of the cold in your bones FOREVER!
I saw Lori’s picture on someone else’s website on her trip to Antarctica. It was so funny to see someone I knew. This woman was a teacher doing a stint as an administrative assistant. I don’t know if she stayed longer than one summer. Her website didn’t say what happened to her subsequently. http://www.apollo.issaquah.wednet.edu/Teachers/antarctica/TalsoC2.htm
Your photography is outstanding. Glad I can see it so easily via the web.Lisa, the girl in the photo with Lorie has become a regular. I remember her from her first year. Since then she came back last summer and it wouldn’t suprise me to hear that she would be coming back again. If you pay the 12000 dollars for the cruise ship there is a 70 percent chance that you might see us. Lorie and I both come down a month before everyone else because we have to help with the unloading process when the supply ship comes in. The cruise ships all come in around that time too.
mikeSo you will be in sunny California. I suppose not off the beaten track in Sacramento?
I guess the only way I’ll run into you both is if I spring for the $12,000 trip on one of the cruise ships to McMurdo; no, wait, you are wintering over!
Well, put Sacramento on the map when you are 95 years old and looking for someplace HOT. It was 112 in mid July this year. That heat will boil out all of the cold in your bones FOREVER!
Yes, sooo true. It’s 100 degrees today—talk about extreme changes, Antarctica to Sacramento!
Boy this message board goes back a long way. I’m suprised that somebody found this. After leaving McM in October after spending the winter, we rented a house for 6 weeks in Agnes Waters, a quaint sleepy town on the east coast of Aus. It was rough. We tried to get up every day and make it to the beach by 3pm. Nothing like killing time in the tropics.
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