Ushuaia: Starting Point for Antarctica

We are in Argentina! We left the ship at about 9:00 a.m., then wandered around near the port to find cash and a SIM card. Ah, the trivial affairs of travel. Meanwhile, the Martial Mountains above watch like silent gods everything that happens on the streets, the harbor and the Beagle Channel beyond

A brief digression: Using a mobile phone SIM card is not always a straight-forward process. In the latest case, we received the free card after the Movistar agent entered our passport numbers into the government registery. Then we had to find a small grocery store to buy credit so we could make calls and use the Internet. That wasn't easy, but eventually we found one. What doesn't happen automatically, despite their claims, is the account setup on your phone--the APN. It took two days to figure out how to do it after I finally found the info online via wi-fi.

The rest of today we visited museums, the grocery store, and a couple of restaurants, and admired the rainbow variety of lupine here, the poppies, the Scotch broom or gorse (not sure which) that seems to substitute for forsythia in people's gardens, and dandelions.

Oh, and did I mention that our Airbnb apartment is fantástico!!Read more