Coyote’s Stories and Adventures

	Coyote’s Excellent München Adventure
		In September of 2004 I was invited to spend a couple of months with the astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich, Germany. My duties were to help them with their IDL programming tasks and to learn more about astronomy, generally. But, of course, I had to also learn German. This is an account of the ups and downs of living in a country where you don’t speak the language and almost everything is new to you. I am helped, in some of this, by my son, Brian, who coincidentally was in Munich for a year on a study-abroad program.

	Arctic Ocean Cruise
		In April of 2004 I was invited along on an Arctic Ocean cruise, part of a scientific party organized by oceanographer John Christensen of the Bigelow Oceanographic Laboratory in Maine. We worked too hard and for too many hours each day to make writing an electronic journal possible, but I kept an extensive diary, which I hope to turn into an essay one day soon. What you see here are slightly edited and annotated letters to the folks back home. And polar bears, of course, you will see polar bears. That’s why I went!

	Creighton Grade School Reunion
		In January of 2002 I got together with four of my former classmates of the Creighton Grade School in Phoenix, Arizona to visit our former 7th grade teacher, Mrs Buchanan. Most of us had not seen each other for nearly 35 years. This is an account of that trip.