Spring Break 2008
I took the family and went backpacking this week at the Channel Islands. It was beautiful and remote, and a great adventure for a few days. So, you get the catamaran out of Ventura, blast across the channel breaking through swells at 25 knots and looking for dolphin and whales, and then they drop you off at Santa Cruz Island, where you hike your stuff in about 4 miles to the camp. This was my idea of fun. Hard work, but we sure had a lot of fun together.
After that we had reserved a tour at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. I’ve wanted to go there ever since the Voyagers launched in 1977. What an amazing place. Voyager 1 is now almost 10 billion miles away, and they are still getting data from it. Here’s a pic of me geeking out at Space Flight Operations with Rob Manning, Chief Engineer of the Mars missions.
