Yesterday one of the trip coordinators decided that we should go to Fort Bulness, a historic monument in Punta Arenas. I personally wasn't that excited because it sounded like another museum with…
Luke:Over the last couple of days plans for going to Antarctica have continuously changed. We've heard many mixed reports but yesterday we officailly found out that we will not be going to…
To go or not to go, that is the question we all have right now. Elías Berticevic, our Chilean host, is working very hard trying to rescue the expedition. He is dealing with the Chilean health…
Anna: Today is Wednesday, February 19th. Our originally scheduled departure date was yesterday. If we don't fly out tomorrow, we won't get to go to Antarctica at all.
Our flight got cancelled this…
We are one step closer to our final destination; on Monday we received all our gear for Antarctica!
While the Chilean students were getting their clothing from INACH*, we walked over to the USAP**…
Today we went to INACH for the first time, and we heard lots about the history of Punta Arenas and Antarctic exploration. We passed the Banco de Chile (currently) where the British Club occupies the…
Claire Hour six in the Santiago airport. We found Gate 27 for our flight to Punta Arenas, and after that, everything was a bit of a blur. Lynn and I had gone over to the check-in counter to take a…
Yesterday we started our journey at the Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin. It's a really small airport, which is nice because there are short lines for everything. Unfortunately,…
And we are off to the adventure! We gathered at Madison's airport with family to begin the trek down south. Lots of smiles and good wishes from the families who came to say farewell,
Families gather…
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A unas horas de partir rumbo a Chile, Elías Barticevic, del INACH, me pide que escribamos lo que pensamos obtener de esta experiencia.…
Location: 43.13 N, 89.28 W
If you are reading this journal entry it means I was able to post it using the satellite phone and not an internet connection. This might sound easy to you, but I had to…
Last thursday Jim Madsen, from IceCube, came to our school to help teach us more about the cosmic ray detectors and how they work. And help was what we definitely needed. The whole set up consisted…
