Here I go again, leaving the United States for a while
again. The flight from Denver was beautiful when I wasn’t napping! We flew over
the Grand Canyon which was beautiful. The time we spent in LAX was marked by my
co-worker, Heather, leaving her ticket and passport on the plane. Oops! She got
it back, thank goodness. We spent some time walking around and then dinner #1
at Chili’s. The big group of us Polar folks spent time chatting and playing
little games as we waited through some delays in boarding. Once on board my
seat neighbor was Zac, a fuel guy at McMurdo, we shared lots of laughs and
watched a documentary about a man that worked at McMurdo and came back crazy. I
hope that isn’t a sign! We had dinner #2 on the plane before tiredness set in.
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| Zac |
I took my drugs so I could sleep some. At that point it was
after midnight so I had some natural help with the sleep. I did wake up a few
times but got some shut eye. Breakfast was so-so. We enjoyed some more tv time
before landing and Zac forgetting his wallet and passport in the seat back
pocket! There seems to be a theme here!
Customs and immigration were pretty easy. Not a huge line
which was nice and then showed my boots to ensure they are clean. We then had
to cart our luggage to the domestic terminal, recheck, bag tag and ticket for
the last flight of the day. I slept most of the flight to Christchurch but
awoke in time to see some snow capped mountains as we made our descent into the
area.
We were greeted at the airport by a couple of the US
Antarctic Program folks and we got some info and collected our bags. After we
loaded up the shuttles we made our way to our respective hotels.
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| My room in the Ashley hotel |
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