Hard to believe, but we're really on our
way to Antarctica!
Day 1... January 8, 2016... Seattle, WA to Buenos Aires, Argentina
First stop: Buenos Aires, Argentina where we will be for 5 days. Then onto the southern-most city in South America, Ushuaia, Argentina, until the 14th of January at which time we'll board the Quark Expeditions Ocean Diamond ship and embark on our trip of a lifetime! Antarctica! During a 15 day period we'll travel past the Antarctic Circle and will head back to Ushuaia. From there we'll take a 10 hour bus ride, plus a border crossing, to Punta Arenas, Chile. We'll board the one flight a week that will take us to Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands. While the Chilenans, and pretty much the rest of the world, call this area the Falkland Islands, the Argentinians say, with enormous national pride, that these are called the Islas Malvinas. While exploring the Falkland Islands, we'll have a week of farm stays. First we'll be staying on Sea Lion Island and then Carcass Island where we will live with a sheep farmer who happens to own the entire island, one Rob McGill. Incidentally, there are only around 2,500 folks who live on the Falkland Islands. At the end of our stay we'll fly from Stanley on the one flight a week back to Punta Arenas, Chile and continue onto Santiago for 5 days. All total, we'll be traveling for 5 weeks. While we'll miss our friends and family, especially our brand new grandson, Beckett, I know we'll have lots of great tales to tell about our trip of a lifetime to Antarctica.