Antarctic Reflection
"You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic." Thomas Pynchon
January 12, 2008 - It Takes a School
...and a community!
November 17, 2007 – The Longest Day
“Ice people say that when you leave the Antarctic, part of you stays behind forever.”
November 16, 2007 – My Last Day in Antarctica
"Under its worst conditions this earth is a good place to live in."
November 15, 2007 – Passing on knowledge
"Ross Island is not a place for a settlement; it is a place for an elaborately equipped scientific station..."
November 14, 2007 - Diving with a surface supply
"Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion."
November 13, 2007 – Adélie Penguins!
“All the world loves a penguin: I think because in many respects they are like ourselves, and in some respects what we should like to be.”
November 12, 2007 - Hike up Observation Hill
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
November 11, 2007 - What is warm and bright in Antarctica?
"He is happiest who hath to gather power and wisdom from a flower."
November 10, 2007 - Helicopter ride to McMurdo
“A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.”