Antarctic season 2008 - here I come

In a few days I will be off to Buenos Aires and Ushuaia to rejoin the Adventure Fleet vessel "Akademik Sergey Vavilov". It will be a long season again - I expect to be home in the first week of April - but I have managed to put in a few days of "shore leave" in February.



This season is going to be as varied and complicated as it could be - 6 trips on 5 ships - so there should be plenty of stuff to write home about. In previous years I could have cracked a cheap joke about having no home and thus being forced to write to "the internet" but alas, that ship has sailed ;-)

Allow me to take a moment and make a quick list of 2007:

• moved into new enormous apartment with my girl (January)
• went on a spontaneous road trip around Argentina (March)
• got all the paperwork done & finalized wedding plans (May)
• finally joined a cruise around Greenland & Iceland (August)
• got married, had honeymoon in the mountains (September)
• finished another PhD article, got a nice job offer (November)
• got an even nicer job offer, submitted the article (December)

It is always weird to leave home and head out to the ships for weeks and months, but this time it might be the weirdest yet. Wish me luck and check out this blog or the "recent pictures" section in the coming weeks!