Umm...hello...
Ok, so if you know me pretty well you might know I am not the biggest fan of blogs. But I decided to go ahead and write one anyone, simply so that anyone interested might get an idea of what my experiences for the next month + are going to be like.

In case you haven't heard, I will be going to the South Pole. My journey starts, um, tomorrow...actually today. This is my second time going down. A question I get alot is "whats it like down there?" I should answer "Its like nothing you've ever seen before" but I usually don't. However, it is like nothing you have ever seen before. To try and begin to desribe Antarctica would be like asking Neil Armstrong what walking on the moon felt like. Life in Antarctica defies description. Mine is by far not the first blog. You can use "the google" to find a myriad of Antarctic blogs. Drew Turner went down last year and wrote one, and he also did some extensive travelling after the trip, so there is some good stuff in his blog. Anyway, back to my main point...I don't have the time/space/desire to go into much background detail on Antarctica. You can find some of that here: CIA handbook ("the coldest, windiest, highest (on average), and driest continent; during summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than is received at the Equator in an equivalent period; mostly uninhabitable"), and here: every college student's favorite webpage, wikiwiki ("Although this and the other pictures in this article show interesting features, a "typical" picture of Antarctica would show nothing but a flat white snowfield.")

Anyway, since I am still at work and need to go home, do laundry, pack, get my stuff straightened out at home, get some sleep, and get to the the airport, all in the next eleven hours, I will sign off here. Adios!!