We’re almost to Honolulu, and 12 hours away from the end of my last cruise with this STS.

I’ve been pretty productive this cruise. Most of the time has been spent doing a huge brain dump into the group’s Operations Manual, since they have a whole crop of new techs that are probably going to need all the help they can get.

After Monday, I’ll be helping to offload the Jason ROV from the ship until Thursday. Then I have Friday and Saturday to run around in Honolulu for the last time for a while.

Once my mini-vacation is over, I fly home on Sunday to a house with a big “For Sale” sign in the front yard. Monday finds me working again back in the real world, whatever that’s supposed to be.

I’m not sure what to think about this last trip. On one hand, I know I’m going to miss the travel, but on the other hand I feel like I need to get my self grounded on land for a while.