Author Archives: Brendan Heck

Quarantine in Santiago

We spent the next few days in quarantine in Santiago, waiting for our test results from the previous day’s entry to arrive. The nice thing about this was that CJ could at least work, and given Chile was 4 hours ahead of Denver, we never needed to worry about getting up early. We slept in…

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Walking tour in Santiago

We slept in again as Groundhog Day dawned, and looked forward to our walking tour of Santiago – the only thing we felt comfortable doing given the COVID risk of not making our Antarctic expedition. We enjoyed a leisurely wake up, but this time both actually making it to breakfast before the 10:30AM cut off…

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Traveling to Antarctica via Chile

It was with much trepidation that we headed into our long awaited journey down to the southernmost continent, the last of the seven – Antarctica via Chile. Our itinerary was essentially to travel from DEN via IAH to SCL (Santiago, Chile), spend 5 days clearing COVID and any airline delays, and then travel onward to…

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Neue Taverne – Michelin star vegetarian

For this blog, we do a deep dive into the Neue Taverne experience and menu, deeper than the previous overview blog. Brendan Heck, my lovely husband, is our guest blogger, and does excellent work integration both of our thoughts. Bon appétit! therestlessroad As we headed from our hotel into the cold Zürich night to walk…

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