It's official - as summer turns to fall, John's 6 month tenure at McMurdo station has officially ended. He's now back in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he's going to take a leisurely and circuitous journey back to Texas, and then return to Toronto.
In the final weeks before departing, he and his cohorts had a picnic, saw penguins, and got ready to be redeployed.
From New Zealand, he's off to Australia for a week or two, to visit an old York University roommate (they were both International Students), followed by several stops in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand), then to Honolulu, San Francisco, and finally Texas, where he'll linger for a little while before heading back to Toronto.
I sent him a new camera a while back and am looking forward to lots of photos from these exotic locales.
I also have a growing pile of boxes that he's had shipped to the house; mostly cold-weather gear he was able order at a substantial discount as an Antarctica worker.
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