Tag: travel journal
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Day Sixty-Six
I received some more questions from Hilary-yay! Why is the station called McMurdo? This is a great question. I didn’t know the answer either, so we are all learning something together here. I am going to share directly from good ol’Wiki on this. Mcmurdo takes its name from its geographic location on McMurdo Sound, named after…
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Day Sixty-Five
Weather update. It’s -22F with a wind chill of -48F. Honestly, it feels nice out when the wind isn’t blowing. I’m to the point that I can run a bag of trash out the front door in just a fleece rather than my big red jacket. It does not cease to amaze me at how…
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Day Sixty-Four
Let me tell you what the good word is. After numerous failed attempts to get a birthday call in to Mumsie, I realized the phone jack was slightly askew from the port. After clicking it back into place, I successfully dialed me Mumsie and had a good ol’Birthday chat with her. I sure do miss…
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Day Sixty-Three
Day off, yay! Also, it’s me Mum’s birthday-Happy Birthday Mumsie! I called her yesterday and wished her a happy birthday from the future, since we are a day ahead down here. Sadly, the phone lines aren’t working today so I can’t connect, but I am glad we got a quick chat in yesterday. Miss you…
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Day Sixty-Two
I received a couple more questions from the one and only Francesca. Where does the poop go? The poop goes across station in overland poop pipes to the wastewater treatment facility. It is macerated upon arrival and then goes through the appropriate tanks before being flushed out the backdoor and into the sea. Any leftover…
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Day Sixty-One
The days are kind of starting to really blur together and time is going by so quickly. Knowing that the season is coming to an end, I’ve started getting a little anxious about redeploying. My supervisor back in the States reached out with my off-ice date earlier today. October 16th. I arrived on October 17th…
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Day Sixty
We’ve got a little weather going on today. It’s currently -20F and with the wind chill it’s -47F. Out on the sea ice and at the airfields, it is a condition one, which is the most severe of our three weather status’. Here in town it’s a condition three which means business as usual, so…
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Day Fifty-Nine
I made a placeholder for this post yesterday, putting the title and a quick line in. The line was something along the lines of stabby-stab-stab-stab. That sums yesterday up. I am chalking it up to my final day on the steroids for my back, which is significantly better now. I couldn’t tell you the last…
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Day Fifty-Eight
As it typically goes, after an unproductive day off, I had a productive ‘Monday’. Not that there is anything exciting to report, just a productive day in the store getting things a little more organized while the station is still quiet. We are creeping closer and closer to what is called WinFly. That’s the pre…
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Day Fifty-Seven
I didn’t do anything today, well, that’s not entirely true. I got up, coffee’d, showered, and then it was pretty much game over. I doom scrolled on the socials. I caught up with some, but not all, emails and messages. I posted a couple pictures to the socials, so check out my IG for that…if…
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