Not all who wander are lost
This blog encapsulates our first days on our expedition to Antarctica, as started crossing the Drake with Hurtigruten on Feb 5, 6, and 7, 2022. At a brief bit in the night our cabin started rocking a bit, but otherwise the first night was smooth sailing. We both slept through breakfast, but awoke around 930AM…
We inched our morning a bit earlier with the expectation of finally being able to check-in for our journey to Punta Arenas with Hurtigruten, and hopefully get some more details about our trip. It was the butt crack of dawn, 9:30AM on Thursday, February 3, 2022. Note: the night before we had realized that we…
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…
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…
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…
Now that we arrived, rested, and got situated at the hotel, it was time to explore the Santo Domingo Colonial district over the next 4 days. Since it was still daylight out, we thought we’d get a walk in before our 20:30 reservation at Jalao. Stepping out of Casas del XVI was always an adventure,…
