July 14, 2003

July 14th Status

A quick status report...


====REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF====

FLIGHTS [mostly done; waiting for MWE]

  • Mom and Dad's PGH/SGP/PGH tickets are booked and paid for. Confirmations will go out on late monday night.

  • Matt is zeroing in on hiis SFO/SGP/SFO ticket selection. (get an economy ticket instead of a business class, and use the 'Found Money' on more gear!)

  • The SGP/Alice/SGP tickets are reserved. I will do the final confirms on them this week. We're scheduled on a decent flight; waitlisted on the ideal flight. The only difference is a four-hour or one-hour layover. Not a serious issue.


    LODGING [must book this week]

  • I haven't planned or booked anything yet. I will do that in the next few days.


    VEHICLE [must book this week]

  • I haven't reserved anything yet. Will call the fellow Vic Widman recommended.


    ====SECONDARY STUFF====

    Radios

    Need to find somewhere we can rent or borrow UHF CBs from.


    KAP Rig

    Matt is currently working on the RC video system. We're going to forgo buying a second kite. It sounds like more fun to try balloon-assisted, or balloon-only aerial photography. So we need to procure the balloons, rigging, and then the gases (on the Alice Springs side)


    Astro Navigation

    Nothing accomplished here. Need to research this topic.


    Research

    Need to do background research on the areas we're going to. Should go there with as fat a dossier of interesting information as we can on the area.

    Blog/Documentation

    Need to think through how we want to document and log our trip.

    Posted by Nils Blutig at July 14, 2003 01:57 AM | TrackBack