in retrospect...

We arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi early Wednesday morning. By 10am we had successfully unloaded the boat - everybody was hyper and happy as their family and friends arrived to pick them up. Those who still had to work unloading and storing all the equipment were being very quick and efficient about it, eager to get home.

Several of us had flights out later that afternoon and so rather than hang out on an empty ship on of the girls who works for NOAA took us all to the bar, where we decompressed drinking beer and playing shuffleboard to the tunes of country/rock being played from a jukebox.

I suddenly felt sufficiently exposed to the South.

The flight home was rather uneventful. After collecting my luggage I stepped out of the airport onto a clearly marked crosswalk with a green light for pedestrians. A yellow taxi honked its horn at me.

So good to be home!