(Late) Thanksgiving update

Okay, I'm a little late in posting this, but we did hear from John on Thanksgiving day - a nice treat! They are a day ahead of us (and 7 hours earlier), so it was actually Friday. However they had not celebrated their Thanksgiving yet - according to him, all holidays are observed on Sundays.

He continues to do well; at the time he said he was about to go on a hiking expedition to visit the site of the Pegasus, a Navy C121 Constellation transport plane that (according to information I gleaned elsewhere) crashed during a storm in 1970. As John put it, since no one died, it's now a popular destination for hiker. Pegasus Field at McMurdo is named for the downed aircraft.

Here's he and his cohorts climbing on the now-partially buried Pegasus:

...As you can see, many a hiker has left his or her mark on the exposed rudder.

Here's another view of the Pegasus, courtesy of a previous visitor.