Leavin' On a Jet Plane

My deployment has been moved up, so I'm now leaving the US and headed for Chile, Palmer Station, and the Research Icebreaker Laurence M. Gould on Sunday, April 2. The same day that Marc has to go to Chile for 10 days. Claire will be spoiled rotten by her Grammy and Grandad until Marc gets back, and a great friend is house/dog sitting. While I know this is all good and Claire will be fine, if I think about it too much, I start grinding my teeth with anxiety about leaving her for 22 days.

But it will be a very productive deployment, with more scheduled that we might be able to accomplish, and many, many poems to work on. Keep an eye here; I'll send blog posts via email, and pictures to my flickr account, when I go.

Dos pisco sours, por favor.