by Chris | Dec 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Two days later our ship docked early on a cold and windy morning in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, about 825 miles (1,330 kilometers) southeast of Buenos Aires. From there we took a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride across the empty Patagonian plains to one of our most...
by Chris | Dec 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the many illusions — perhaps the biggest illusion — that a cruise offers is the constantly available food. We’d wake up in the morning, walk up a short flight of stairs, and there the food was waiting for us, ready to be put on our plates by...
by Chris | Dec 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
A night of sailing down the Rio de la Plata brought us to our first port of call, the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. The morning was as bright and as placid as the sun that adorns the Uruguayan national flag. Until that morning, Montevideo meant not much more to...
by Chris | Dec 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Our time in Buenos Aires was unluckily short: we got there on a Sunday, and left on the ship on Tuesday. But we did have the good luck to get there in time for Sunday’s bustling, carnival-like San Telmo flea market, where amid browsing through the many booths...
by Chris | Dec 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m so glad to be back home after a fun, interesting, and badly-needed vacation to South America. Dan and I flew to Buenos Aires on Sunday, Nov. 17, and spent two nights there. Then we got on a cruise ship that took us down the coast of Argentina, around Cape...
by Chris | Nov 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
The election already seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? All that worrying over whether voters would deny same-sex marriage rights in the states of Maine and Maryland and Washington? When I was writing last week’s blog, I told myself, but...
