Day 1 – Flight To Peru
The Adventure Begins! With an early flight out of Detroit, we stayed at the Westin in the Airport, which everyone else seemed to be doing
The Adventure Begins! With an early flight out of Detroit, we stayed at the Westin in the Airport, which everyone else seemed to be doing
Our anniversary is in December, and between Christmas and skating, it’s always hard to find time to celebrate. So we gave our globe a spin
The only problem, and this was to be a theme for the weekend, is how skimpy Argentines were with ice.
The captain didn’t waste anytime starting our trip back to Ushuaia. No wake up call meant getting to sleep in and relax.
Our final day in Antartica! The Plancius had taken us to the Shetlend Islands overnight to start our journey home, but there were two more
Christmas Morning in Antartica, that was a pretty surreal experience.
Another day of waking up to Allie’s ‘Good Morning Everyone, Good Morning’, only this morning there were Orcas alongside the boat, so we raced out
I got up and could not catch my breath for what felt like a full minute.
Port Lockroy, or Base A, is a British outpost that now serves as a museum and a place to conduct research.
To construct a proper Antarctive camp site, you first must dig out a mummy shaped ditch in the snow
Woke up to another morning of rocking waves on the Drake
Although we were sleeping, the Plancius was chugging away from Argentina and into the Drake Passage.
I got to choose today’s adventure, and I chose to explore Tierra del Fuego!
We said goodbye to our friends and set our sights towards Tarangire.
After made to order omelets and sleeping through the night with no stampedes, we loaded up the Jeeps and took off
Coming back, the migration cut us off from camp for several minutes.