wonderfullyrich Last time I was down 7 years ago, I wanted to do an inventory of all the strange vehicles on station. I didn’t remember that I wanted to do that until just a few minutes ago when a friend back home asked me about the how a Pisten Bully–hereafter referred to as a PB as … Read more
McMurdo is currently going sky crazy. The sun is barely up for 6 hours now, which means we have extend periods of darkness. (i.e. walking out the door and the sun is down until I'm at work for 3 hours) We also have extend periods of twilight, close to 90 mins or more of the … Read more
This is a recent view at about 5:30pm, frankly a stunning view that happens daily. These last few days have been about as idyllic as McMurdo weather gets. We’ve had sunsets like this at about 5:30pm out my desk window (geting a little less then 8 hours sunlight these days). On Friday evening only about … Read more
For the first time in what feels like a month I feel unhindered by the feelings of lethargy, exhaustion, pain, and being brain fuzzy caused by my body’s battle with sickness. The upside is that my abs are probably in great shape from all the coughing. After getting the crud just before last flight and … Read more
So I know, I'm spoiled, but where do American get this coffee? I was "raised" on coffee over the last year an a half in Eastern Africa as except for the smell of coffee in the morning, I used to hate coffee, preferring instead hot chocolate. I thought it was bitter disgusting water, and couldn't … Read more
I've still got the last of my burundian water posts to put up, and it's more or less finished, but needs some rethinking due to problems with the filter and original line of thought. In the meantime I was asked by Tripbase.com to give some advice, due to my notorious traveling, to write a … Read more
Previously I talked about what I was doing in Burundi talking about CAWST and the stages of clean water. I want to back up a bit and talk about Burundi for a bit in order to give you a context for the CAWST water filter project in Burundi and why it has to be cheap, … Read more
Three years ago I wrote an blog based on my research around water and making it clean. Coming up in the next several days are a few follow ups on that idea, followed by my first solo attempt at building a cheap filter. If you've been keeping up with me, I'm in Eastern Africa … Read more
I have to say the Netherlands screwed the cup, but that's not the blowing I was thinking about. It's about 2:30am as I start writing this, and here is what I know. At least 23 people probably closer to 50 people have died in what looks like 2 probably 3 bomb blasts of an unknown … Read more
I'm a cheap date, all I want is a $12.50 phone, okay so I can't eat it and it might not be as tasty as a Burundi Royale with Cheese, but it might help calm things a bit here in Burundi. We've got 75 more phones to purchase for the Burundi election monitoring HROC is doing. Donate … Read more