Hey everyone, this will probably be the last blog I'll write for a couple days, since I'm going to be traveling pretty much non-stop from Dutch to D.C. for a couple of days and I won't have readily available internet access. I should say that the current plan is to do such a thing. There's a volcano to the east of us that's been erupting for the past month or so and the flights to Anchorage were canceled today due to stuff in the air. I didn't see anything myself but apparently there must have been something out there to necessitate a cancellation of those flights. Naturally this makes me fearful about the status of my one o'clock flight. I really don't want to hang around Dutch Harbor longer than I have to. I really want to get back to Maryland and call it a day, but we'll just have to see how it's going to go.

Today's blog should be pretty short. Since we've already packed everything up, I can't really say anything science-y. We pulled into the harbor around nine this morning and we were finally able to get off the boat around ten. It felt pretty good to be able to walk in a straight line for longer than a few yards or so. I went down to the Alaska Ship Supply store for some stuff to remember the times by, other than pictures and memories. We then later walked into town to go to the WWII museum but they're closed for some reason and will be until the seventh of August. Bummer, so we walked around a poked around the post office and some random grocery store. Yes, we were kind of looking for things to do. I don't usually check out a post office if I can help it. Anyway, we did that for a while and then went to dinner. I had this long roll of sushi from a sushi bar in town. It was really good and quite a difference from the food on the ship. By this time it was getting on in the hours so I rode back to the ship with a few other people and I'm in the middle of packing up my belongings in the hopes that we CAN leave tomorrow. Take it easy everyone and thanks for reading. I hope you got something out of this because I believe that I did.