Greenland go? Weeell…
It now looks as if the Dell engineers are going to install the Company’s servers (it’s a big order—about 1 million dollars’ ). This means that John won’t get his summer job. He’ll still not take his holidays—he has projects to supervise—but he won’t be paid for the privilege.
Still, I could get about a thousand quid for my trip, but a thousand quid is barely enough to get to Greenland and take a ride on the local ferry.
“You can’t travel like an executive’s wife,” he says. “Not yet.”
Travel like an executive’s wife? For that money I’ll be lucky to secure a sleeper-seat in a rusty trawler and I’ll have to camp in most of the villages and cut back on meals.
Next year, I can have two grand, but next year is NipponCon and this is my best excuse yet to go to Japan (or will be, if I get anything accepted and a novel pitch ready). In the meantime, it looks like it’s curtains for whale watching this year, although I’ll have a look into Glacier Bay. Maybe they do no-frills flights to Anchorage.
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