Tuesday, September 19, 2006

The timetable is set

I just received my itinerary and it matches the previous post, so I will be leaving Los Angeles Oct. 2, arriving in New Zealand Oct. 4 and Antarctica Oct. 6.

I am scheduled to undergo "Snow School" Oct. 10-11. It is an "overnight" survival class that, to be perfectly honest, I'm not looking forward to. However, I will take a good attitude and all my warm clothing into it. So, when family are remembering me on my birthday Oct. 9, it will already be Oct. 10 where I am and I'll be digging a snow cave to sleep in.

Then, on Oct. 14, I'll take a daylong safety class on the sea ice.

You can definitely expect to hear more about these events.

1 comment:

Beachcomber2000 said...

It's not only dogs. No non-indigenous life forms are permitted, including plants. Remember that the entire continent is considered by treaty to be essentially a laboratory. One of the biggest impressions made in the handbook I received is that you don’t mess with things.