Trip across North America and back
Friday, October 25Our plane left before 8 am from Logan Airport, so we were picked up at 4:30 for the trip. The plane left pretty much on time and we arrived at Cancun Airport around 11 AM (one hour back). We got our luggage and found the shuttle to take us to the Vidanta Rivera Continue Reading
At 2:45, I woke up ahead of the alarm and we finished up in the room and headed downstairs for a 3:30 am bus. The bus got us to the AirCanada terminal in the Santiago airport and we checked in for the flight. The plane was scheduled to leave at 9 am, but had been delayed to 10:45. We Continue Reading
We went on the artists studio tour in Valparaíso today. (Note that my high school Spanish from 1963 remembered how to pronounce it with the accent in there right place: Val Para Iso.) I found a Facebook post from someone who had taken the same tour the day before and used it to make sure Continue Reading
Not much in terms of pictures, just sailing from Puerto Montt towards Valparaíso. We get to VP tomorrow morning and have our last shore excursion. So today we walked around the ship and had breakfast at the restaurant, lunch at Mamson’s, tea ant the Wintergarden and dinner at our favorite restaurant, the Chef’s Table. They Continue Reading
An actual shore excursion!!! We had an early room service breakfast and were off on a tender to shore around 8 AM. Puerto Montt is a 45 deg south, so roughly the Canadian border of New Hampshire and Vermont, and a lovely summer day. After an hour viewing volcanic remnants and classic snow capped conical volcanoes. Continue Reading
Yesterday was overcast, rainy and very choppy. Walking to dinner made you feel like you were drunk and weaving from side to side. Today, on the other hand is 56 degrees outside and sunny, winds at our backs, and very smooth. Today we went to the morning lecture on Kon-Tiki. Very interesting and we learned Continue Reading
Today the big attraction for the day happened early. We went up to the Amalia Glacier and then the captain left the ship there and gradually turned a full 360 so everyone could see. We started up on deck 7 with breakfast, but the glacier was obscured by rain on the windows, which the iPhone Continue Reading
The captain just told us that the winds were around 80 knots and that the port of Punta Arenas has closed. So more glaciers today. Here is the first. Cape Froward is the southernmost point on the South American continent. Note cross on top
Started the sailing day passing Isla de Los Estados, just before coming to the Tierra del Fuego set of islands. As the day progressed we went around or near several small islands. Eventually we came to the Cape Horn island. Which has a permanent lighthouse keeper and his wife and kids living there. After that, Continue Reading
We had lower GI issues starting on day 4. We sailed the Atlantic toward Puerto Madryn. As we approached Puerto Madryn and hung around for a while, the captain and port officials determined that the 35 to 45 knot winds were too extreme to actually dock the boat, so after a few hours, Puerto Madryn Continue Reading