Day 12 – Ushuaia For A Day Today I woke up at 7:45. When I opened the curtains - Ushuaia! And more ships! There are several ships that visit Antarctica. We were very happy with our choice! I’ll tell you more about that later! Since I was back...
Day 11 - Calm Waters Again We slept until 9:30 today! Crazy! It's not like we hadn't had enough sleep at this point! We were rocking a little, not as bad as the day before though! We showered, got dressed, and went to find some food. We sat in...
Day 10 - The Day I Did Nothing This morning I woke up, and the ship was moving! I thought I would be fine, but by the time I stepped out of the shower - definitely not fine. So I put on a robe and got right...
Day 9 - To Plunge or Not to Plunge I woke up around 4:30 for good. It was rather blinding, opening my eyes! I talked to Mukta for a while and we started packing our bags up around 4:50. The zodiacs were coming back to get us around...
Day 8 – An Unintentional Polar Plunge and Camping on the Continent! Today we opened the curtains and gasped. There was a glacier right next to us. Like we were PARKED next to a glacier. Unreal! And there were penguins everywhere! This was Necko Harbor, and it was...
Day 7 - Penguins Again! We woke up at seven and got ready for more penguins! Woohoo! It was very Antarcticy outside today! Today was a day for allll the layers! Or so I thought. We ate our room service breakfast and headed down. We realized that they...
Day 6 - Two Landings I was sleeping hard at 7:30 when my alarm went off today. But it went off at 7:30 because we had two landings today! Yay! Our butler brought our room service breakfast! Here’s the order form: They started calling groups about 15 minutes...
Day 5 - First Penguins! We slept great, and woke up around 8:30. I could see icebergs and land in the distance! We were in the South Shetland Islands. Here we are on a map: I was staring out the window when a penguin jumped out of the...
Day 4 - Drake Lake Drake Lake or Drake Shake? That was the question on all of our minds. Our bus guide the day before had told us she hoped we had Drake-Lakey, and not Drake-Shakey! While not perfectly calm, we were closer to Lakey than Shakey! I woke...
Day 3 - To the Ship! We had a ridiculously early morning charter flight to Ushuaia, so we met the group downstairs in the lobby at 4:30 am. We took the bus to the airport and went through security as a group. We all had liquids...
Day 2 – Beautiful Buenos Aires We landed early in the morning and had a whole day in Buenos Aires! For some reason, I never got out the real camera today, but I took phone pictures! Atlas includes a charter flight from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia on...
Day 1 - On My Way I had an afternoon flight out of Denver, meeting Mukta in Houston for a 10-hour flight to Buenos Aires! I bought a new camera bag for this trip that I've been eyeing. I was very happy with it! I do love...
Day 7 – No Bikes After All Today was our last day! Sadness! We had a long bike ride scheduled in Passau. The night before they warned us that this was the hardest bike ride we had done. I was a little worried I wouldn’t make it. ...
Day 6 – Don’t Feed the Bears! Today we had a bike tour of Linz! After breakfast, we took off. We saw a lot, it was very cool! Probably the coolest thing we saw was an amazing town map on the floor of a huge space. Every...
Day 5 – How About Wine? Today we were in the Wachau Valley! With two stops. One in Durnstein, and later in the day we would stop in Grein. Ally and I had chosen the hike to the fortress. The description was off on this one as...