boot hills and border towns

Catching up... on Saturday morning we had a meeting to plan this week's drilling (and personnel pull-out). Afterwards, I called a hotel in Tarifa and made a booking, then departed for a 1.5 day jaunt alone across Spain, visiting Andalusian hill towns, Gibraltar, getting lost driving in Tarifa at night and taking a day-trip to Morocco.

( Several photos and more detaIls follow... )

One more day

One last full day in Nerva, then homeward...

Today: comment on remote science notes from hopeforyou and KS. Show Jose-Antonio where the MINI software goes. Get the last team signatures on the picture for Casiano and award it and a NASA hat to him at lunchtime. Emails and phone calls to CS about institutional conflicts... at least we're OK with our Spanish hosts. Figure out how to keep the hotel DSL going after the end of the month. Start processing cores from the next hole (I hope) and provide hands-on training. After-lunch telecon with the folks back in the US. Look at the mining museum -- I've been here for 2+ weeks and not seen it, outside of our lab space. And pack, and clear our my samples and equipment. Maybe carouse around Nerva again after dinner, one more time...

A day in Nerva

( Ruminations and photos... )