My trusty Saskatchewan travel mug (which I got for being in a Sask tourism video shoot), held many flat whites while I was visiting New Zealand. But now it's returning to the real Flat White: Saskatchewan. The #ProfSamLectureTour will be fully completed by the end of the day today.

#BabyGoatCountdown is at 7 days!

Made it back to Canada and I already tried to look for a flusher button on top of a toilet and went for the passenger seat on the wrong side of a car. But hey, there are cherry blossoms here!

Will spend a couple of days staying with good friends near Vancouver and acclimatizing ourselves from NZ fall to Canada early spring, while also keeping an eye on the weather to decide when it'll be best to start the drive back to Sask. Then we'll swap the #ProfSamLectureTour to the #BabyGoatCountdown!!

It'll take me several days to actually get home, but I'm about to start the first leg of the #ProfSamLectureTour return trip.

I'd like to point out that while I was here, the 3 of us friends who wrote the cow-culation paper also wrote a scicomm article https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366 and an obituary. (While I also travelled around and gave talks about satellite pollution and helped with teaching).

What a year these last 6 weeks have been! Thanks for all the flat whites, Christchurch!

And lastly, Kia Ora, Tekapo!! Excited to give a talk for you later today. (It's at 4pm, not 6am, this website is wrong) https://happeningnext.com/event/astronomy-vs-the-billionaire-space-race-eid3a0dhdn6jl
Last scheduled talk of the #ProfSamLectureTour

Now time to (politely and carefully) wander around an active sheep farm! Happy equinox!