Always a world traveler…

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(subtitled: why giving your daughter administrative access to your blog can be dangerous.)

If my calculations are correct than KDK is about halfway across the Atlantic by now. Too far away to properly chastise me for sharing this epic shot I found recently when going through old family photos.

I was tempted to upload this beauty directly to dad’s are the original hipsters but thought you fine readers might get more of a kick out of the ‘stach.

Though he hasn’t been blogging KDK did give me a quick update before they embarked from Nova Scotia. He was sipping coffee in a Starbucks while downloading a large file for an errant faculty member.

He reported that the locals “like my ‘eat more kale’ t-shirt” and that “if I spend a [censored] hour downloading this  [censored] zip file it better work.”

Miss you more than you know, diddy.

Secret agent guest poster: Georgia Louise

Atlantic Exploration!

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Yea! Kathy and I are going on another voyage! Fall 2012, Atlantic Exploration.

http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyages/fall-2012/

14 ports, 12 countries, 4 continents.

We have our passports, with the requisite number of empty pages.

We have our inoculations (including Yellow Fever).

We have our visas for Ghana and Brazil.

We have our anti-malaria pills.

We have been in our new condo for all of 5 days and have a few days more to unpack our house before packing for the trip.

There are a BUNCH of really great people sailing with us, so it is going to be great. I will miss several of my spades partners from summer 2010 however.

Driving to Boston a week from Sunday to EMBARK. (what a great word).

Real time.

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Friday 7am. We are back on East Coast time now approaching Norfolk. We had to pack last night. Our “checked” luggage gets lifted off the ship by crane. We carry the stuff we need today and tomorrow, plus any fragile items. We reunite with our bags after immigration and before customs.

We are allowed to bring $800 of personal purchases in without tax. Sorry for you potential gift receivers, I came in well under that.

Today we have commencement for those students who actually finished their degrees this summer. And we will still be in the lab as folks are busy trying to stuff more photos onto their already full hard drives.

The mood on the ship is a mixture of excitement about getting home, and sadness of leaving new friends. Everyone is talking about what they will be doing in  the next few days. Especially what/where they want to eat. I think the ship does a great job with the food, but after 10 weeks, we are all craving something. I’m thinking corn-on-the-cob, or perhaps a red curry with lots of crushed red pepper.

Many students purchased world maps and they are having friends sign it like a yearbook. It’s a cool idea. Up on the wall you get to see where your friends are and what they wrote. Better than a yearbook closed on a shelf.

Tomorrow morning we dock, and exit the ship in groups. We have purple tags and exit 4th. We have tickets for the airport shuttle and a 5:30 flight to BTV through Newark. We should be home by midnight.