Back in Hobart for a break

We are back in Hobart, home sweet home. It has been 9 weeks since I left for the field and I was ready to be home. We have set up 3 of the 6 field sites, half way there. We are home now for about 1.5 weeks then we will head back to Brisbane to set up one more site before I fly back to California.

I put together this map of the major cities and my field site locations (red dots) to give you an idea of where we have been spending out time. I also geeked out and made this distance table for perspective.

	Distance	US equivalent
Cairns to Brisbane	1712 km (1063 mi)	Portland to San Diego
Brisbane to Sydney	940 km (584 mi)	San Francisco to San Diego
Sydney to Hobart	1168 km (725 mi)	San Francisco to Salt Lake City
Hobart to Cairns	3353 km (2083 mi)	San Francisco to St. Louis

Yesterday we finalized the purchase of another car. That makes Tim and I owners of 4 cars now. Yes it may sound excessive, but think about it as 2 per hemisphere (northern and southern). We got another Subaru wagon. It's a 93' with 4wd, plus it came with roof racks and a bike rack for the hitch. So not only is it a good field vehicle, it is ready for playing as well and picking up visitors from the airport ;)


Hope to see some of you soon in California.