Newport, Oregon

Well, this is not the way I wanted to start my arctic adventure. In the last few moments of my vacation I tripped on a gravel road and really wrecked my knee – stitches internal and external.  Poor Carol had the pleasure of taking me to the hospital where they threatened to give me a wooden leg once they heard I was going to sea. Instead they just scrubbed all the rocks out and stitched me up. Nat really wanted to take a picture of it so here it is………they’ll take the sutures out on the ship.