Saturday, May 17, 2014

Last Night At Summit

April 20th, I leave home.  April 25th I arrive at Summit Camp Greenland.  Here it is May 17th and I am less than 24 hours from leaving Summit after completing my 4th work trip.  I have seen temperatures from ~ -45 F to ~ -5 F, made some new friends and gotten caught up with old ones.  This has been a trip that I will be telling stories about for a while.

I do know that I am ready to come home.  The work started out with high hopes and is finishing with a sense of disappointment.  I started out looking forward to spending time in the field doing the type of work that I love and now I am tired and looking forward to time off.  Looking back over the past month I can see the good times and the bad.  I am frustrated that it is ending on such a sour note.

What happens next?  The flight is due tomorrow at ~10:45 am local time, so Bag-Drag is at 8:30 am.   I will need to set my alarm tonight so that I can get up that early.  Once we leave here it is a ~ 2 hour flight back to Kanger and a real bed and a long shower.  We will spend Sunday and Monday in Kanger and then have an 8 hour flight back to New York.  If everything works the way it is supposed to, I will have 3 hours to grab my bags from the ANG and get to the Albany airport to catch my flights back to Denver.  I can't remember when I should be getting back into DIA, but God willing, I should be sleeping in my own bed Tuesday night.

Thanks to everybody that emailed me and I am looking forward to seeing everybody soon.

He is Risen

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