Hab serves as the next-best thing to Mars

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at July 24, 2003 12:00 PM

Here I am on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic (our Mars), and my college girlfriends are convening in my hometown this weekend for their annual get-together. This is a 22-year tradition, and I’d be there, if I weren’t here. It’s fun, and I’m sorry I’ll miss it. They will eat and drink too much, talk about the things that have happened to us all over the last year, brag on their kids’ latest accomplishments, report on their love lives, and sit on the dock at the lake and soak up rays and have a good old time. They will be wearing swimsuits; I will be wearing down booties and a sweater. It’s probably 92 degrees in South Carolina — but it is 35 degrees here.