Judd Slivka was a general assignment reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer when this series was originally published in late 1999 and early 2000. He previously worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock as a night reporter, state reporter and enterprise reporter. N.J. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism's news-editorial sequence, and has also worked at the Columbia Missourian and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Not to Antarctica, yet, but to our friends. Judd and Meryl prepare to return to civilization.
Nothing lives there, save tiny organisms that scientists study.
It's more different than I imagined, because it's very much like Seattle, in that everyone says hello, how are you, but very few people actually care about the answer. We've arrived at McMurdo Station, the main U.S. logistical outpost in Antarctica. This is an interesting place, like a frontier town with Internet access. And a coffee house. We will spend several days reporting from there, and we are looking forward to it.