the incredible breadcrumb betty your reports are beautiful and inspiring and i just wanted to let you know that ive been silently following them and keep it up.
much love
stay safe
D
Incredible Story and Photos (Mostly) I am truly enjoying each installment of your adventure, hearing the happiness in the way you describe the things you are involved in is especially heartwarming.
The photos, too, really help to bring your words to life, and continue to impress me. Well, most of them anyway.
I refer, of course, to that damn ugly Yankee woolen cap!
Arrrrrrrgh! If you are going to do amazing, non-performance enhancing things you really need to be wearing a Mets cap...I can see it now; Amazing Betty in an Amazing Mets cap!
Oh well, I digress. Let me wrap up by saying we all are thinking of you and hope you are well, so keep the blogs coming so we know things are moving along. We will all be gathering for the holidays in the next week, and I hope your mom and sister have some time to join us, but you will certainly be missed.
Happy Holidays, and enjoy the truly unique New Years Eve you will no doubt have. Can't wait to hear all about it. Let's Go Mets!
Lotsa love always, Uncle Neil
Maps Just clicked on the map of Antarctica and realized that on the map you are south of the South Pole, which in some weird way (similar to negative numbers in mathematics?) actually puts you North of the South Pole.... a real challenge for us directionally-challenged folks. BTW, I saw some of the new images of Antarctica released by NASA-- dubbed the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica --- a realistic, nearly cloudless view of the southernmost continent with a resolution 10 times greater than in previous images. Amazing!
How exciting! Dear Betty,
It sounds like summer camp except it's extreme winter weather! I'm so happy this is turning out to be a grand adventure. Your blog is great and the photos wonderful.
Love, your doting aunt, Judy
Well Alrighty Then! It is with great anticipation that I check each day for updates from you, and even moreso when I see that a new entry is indeed waiting in my in-box for me.
I did find today's update more Stephen Kingish that normal ("Will my skin crack and peel off and nose pop a gasket of blood from the total dryness?"), but hey...I love Stephen King! Keep it coming! Bu sure to let us know if any insane nurses, rabid dogs, possessed automobiles or high school students with telekinetic powers cross your path.
Be well, be warm. Lots of Love Always, Neil
Washington Univ. going to the ice too Betty, I wonder if you'll get to the outposts where these researchers are going... good to read about Antarctica in today's Yahoo news: A group of Washington University researchers will head to Antarctica later this month to learn more about the continent's geologic origins. The group will install 10 seismographs that will provide data to help other scientists build better climate change models, Douglas Wiens, a Washington University professor and team leader said."We have no idea what's beneath the ice," Wiens told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "No one has even taken any rock samples. It's thought that when the Earth's climate started to cool millions of years ago, the first glaciers in the world formed in these mountains."The team's base camp will be built 250 miles north of the South Pole, in a region of Antarctica that has only been explored by a Russian team 50 years ago and last year by a Chinese group.The seismographs will help researchers understand the motion of the continent's ice streams, giant rivers of ice that can be up to 80 miles wide.The flow of the ice streams are expected to provide clues about the rocks beneath.
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betty your reports are beautiful and inspiring and i just wanted to let you know that ive been silently following them and keep it up. much love stay safe D