Not all who wander are lost
We reached the white continent, the last of our 7, Antarctica at last as we shared a moment of land ho! And oh what a land it is! There is grandness in the size and scale of Antarctica, but also in the simplicity. Water, snow, ice, and rock. Four elements that create endless variety and…
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…
