Antarctica

What a great experience he is having. Thanks for the link to his blog - very interesting place.
 
Cool. Winter would definitely be...umm, interesting there. I have a number of friends who've worked at McMurdo and more remote stations down there, and apparently in order to be 'approved' to stay over for the winter, you have to go through psychological evaluation. When the last plane leaves at the end of the season, you're there until next Spring, like it or not.
 
My little brother spent 2 years down there right after the first gulf war in the navy supporting the navel air services
Roy
 
Excellent link AM to an exotic neck of the woods as seen by a regular fellow. Thank you. I really enjoyed the photographs. I wonder what EDC/knife does he carry and how does he carry it?
 
Very cool. I'm not man enough to be there during the winter though. Winters in the U.P. of MI were enough for me.
 
For some reason looking at the blog it reminded me of a friend I havent seen for many years. He used to work on a boat named Hero for 3 or 4 years not sure now.
http://www.palmerstation.com/hero/index.html

http://www.palmerstation.com/hero/newship.html

The stories he would tell about all the places he would visit. When the captain of the hero got into a fist fight with Jacques Cousteau. For dumping empty oil and gas drums over board, Cousteau did that. Or when they would spend 3-4 days each year at the Russian base eating and drinking when the passages would open. A big no no during the cold war but being stuck out on base during the winter the Russian sailors and crew of the hero didn't care. They wanted new faces and a reason to eat and drink. Damn be goverments and there rules. He had 1,000s of pics to back up everything he mentioned. Never meet a guy who travled or seen more of the world then Richard Parker did. From the north pole to the south pole and everything in between and I mean everything.
 
I would love doing that! (But I am a horrible carpenter....)

I actually applied for some IT jobs a couple of times. I don't think my new wife would stand for it now though.
 
Freaking awesome. I'm sure you can find a drinking buddy in half a second.
 
When I was a kid, my grandparents took me to a presentation at a public library. During that presentation, a lady talked about her time in Antarctica. It really lit a fire underneath me. It opened my mind to the possibility of doing unusual things at the edge of human experience. One of the really, really, really and truly great things in my life is that I have the opportunity to return to that library this weekend to give a presentation on some adventures that I've had since.
 
awesome! good luck to him. I've looked at Raytheon Polar Services' job offerings MANY times.
 
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