February 4th

I can't believe it's February already. Times seems to be passing by so quickly. Time also seems to be moving so slow these past couple weeks as I think more and more about what I'm going to do after Antarctica.

The vessel, the symbolic and literal end of each summer season, is scheduled to arrive tomorrow morning. Many have transitioned to nights for the around-the-clock offload of the vessel. The vessel essentially brings all of next years supplies and take all of this year's waste back to a landfill in California.

I am scheduled to transition back to days starting this Friday. Only 3 more working Antarctican nights.

Heard of a Russian sailor guy that was here today. He had his appendix removed aboard a ship in the area but then it became infected. So they helicoptered him into McMurdo, cleaned him up and sent him on the next plane to New Zealand.