Ushuaia Day 1

When it finally time to begin boarding around 4:40am, we were feeling pretty tired and grumpy. It didn't help that the line for the women's bathroom was about 20 people long and a fat male janitor was guarding the handicapped bathroom to prevent any women from using it. Naturally, no line at the men's. Luckily, because we had to board a bus to drive to the plane, the line to scan the boarding passes was slower than the bathroom line, so I managed to go before we had to get to the plane.

Soon after we took off, Allan and I both fell asleep. He did so with intention, I did so by accident and had a pretty sore neck when I woke up a couple hours later. I was so tired though that I fell back asleep. We both slept most of the 3 and a half hours trip down to Ushuaia.

Once we got off the plane and picked up our bags, there was someone from G-Adventures waiting to pick us up and take us to the Albatross Hotel.

It's a nice hotel in a great location. When we arrived, our room wasn't ready, so we waited on a couch in the lobby for a bit. Around 11:30 Allan went and chatted to the (male) hotel receptionist asking about barbers and making small talk. The Scottish charm must have worked because all of a sudden he double checked and had a room available for us. We got up to the room, had a much welcome shower, and napped for a couple hours.

After our nap, we still felt tired, but a little more refreshed. We checked out some places nearby to get something to eat and ended up at Dios de Sandwich food truck after a stop at the End of the World sign. We got two pretty sizable hot dogs (that I couldn't even finish) and went back to the hotel.

Allan started getting set up to work on his university stuff, and I went out on a search for coffee, ending up back at the food trucks at the little Cafe truck.

I also poked my nose into the artisan market and saw some beautiful and creative things. I think I'll have to go back!

The rest of our day was pretty chill. Allan took some time to watch the boxing and I watched some things on my phone. We also took advantage of the hotel spa to get some relaxing in 🧖🏼‍♀️.

We are both looking forward to embarking tomorrow, but a little disappointed that we don't head to the boat until the afternoon. Hopefully time won't go too slow!Read more