On February 2nd, I leave for Philadelphia to visit my good friend Tesseract. I will be flying because of the wacky weather and because I don’t really do much driving once I actually arrive there in Philadelphia. Plus, when Southwest has roundtrip airfare for ~$100, it’s kind of hard to say no to that, despite the fact that I’d have to put up with the TSA monkeys. Plus, I really don’t want to drive this time and unlike some people that I know, I make alternative arrangements rather than put people on the spot.

There is no secret amongst my friends and those who know me that I am an avid cave diver. Yes, underwater spelunking. Yes, what they talked about in The Cave. Yes, the same kind of underwater caving as portrayed in the documentary Journey Into Amazing Caves. The Cave had a horrible definition about the reality of caving. Even JIAC wasn’t much better despite being a documentary because they made it seem as though we were there, “…to find the elusive halocline…”. Wrong.