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... there was a medical evac on our flight but she was just on an IV. No need for a separate flight for her. We hung out at the Santiago airport until our flight to the south of Chile and Patagonia. Sometimes traveling without a plan or reservations works well and other times, not so well. Tonight was one of those nights. We checked a couple of ...
Wandering Around
... should be the last casket to go through the main gate (we, and everyone else entered through a side gate.) The avenues between the closely packed mausoleums are lined with huge trimmed evergreens. There is a monument to Admiral Graf Spee, his crews and ships. They defeated an English naval squadron at the Battle of Coronel in November, 1914 and then died in the Battle of the Falklands in December.
The weather is interesting here. When the ...
Give me one reason to stay here ...
... sovereignty in southernmost South America leading to the strait of Magellan being recognized as Chilean in the Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina. The geopolitical importance of Punta Arenas has remained high in the 20 and 21th century as the city is important for logistics in the Antarctic peninsula. Since the Falklands War, when transport ties were severed between the Falkland Islands and continental Argentina, Punta Arenas has become a major outside link to ...
Day 4: Travel Day
... bus. First the bus was coming at 6:30, then 7:00, then 7:30pm it finally arrived. But it was the wrong bus. So we waited for the 8:00pm bus that arrived at 8:30pm. And now we're on our way to Puerto Natales. The only concern is we're not going to arrive till 11:30pm - so it's going to be dark and we have to find our hostel. But have no fear! Heather was ...
Day 94 –A formal affair
... this was the most appropriate moment for the last of our non-drowsy Gravol tabs, but soon we wondered if we should have taken something stronger. The already rough whitecaps and swells were made worse by the captain’s insistence of ramming into them dead straight. About an hour later, neither of us was feeling well, but it definitely hit Marie harder.
However, the boat ride soon didn’t matter as we were let off the boat and promised an ...
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