News That Stays News

Ready, set, pack! August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018

I allotted two whole days to packing, and that turned out to be just enough time to do it comfortably. It’s not that I’m bringing so much stuff—I’m actually taking back a lot less than I came down with—it’s that everything I’m leaving here had to be inventoried, packed, labelled, and stored with the help of the station staff. All in all, I’ve packed away four modified mini-fridges that are also doing double duty as storage cabinets, a giant box containing all the parts I’ve taken off the fridges, two large trash bags full of Styrofoam and cardboard, a big roll of window screen mesh, 100 meters of power cord, a stack of plastic crates, and one last box containing useful odds and ends like my rubber boots. And I won’t try to list all the other things I borrowed from our communal lab supplies or other researchers and had to find and return…. But I got everything squared away. As a bonus, there was a two-toed sloth hanging off the bridge this evening, and I got a pretty good photo. (The spiky hairdo is what happens when a sloth gets rained on.)