A Starting Point ... Mosquito Stampede
So ... After 28 years contracting for BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., I retired from working in Prudhoe Bay in 2018. Since then, a few of my friends told me I should write down some of the stories I witnessed up there, and as such, I did. This is one of the first stories I wrote about a little incident I experienced before a Change Out with my Alternate, which was – at the time - Wayne Englishbee … I think this was the summer of 1996 or 1997. I hope you get a laugh out of it! I wrote the following for some friends on Facebook a couple years ago - and they found it had a laugh or two buried in the detail. I'll try to do better on my next posting. Mosquito Stampede So ... I'm driving down the Spine Road one day in the Prudhoe Bay Western Operating Area - heading toward the Oil Field town of Deadhorse - for Change Out with my Alternate Wayne, when I notice a sizable Caribou herd grazing off to my right on the Tundra. It was seldom I could snag a truck from the Plant...