Ushuaia, Argentina

We were up by 4 am to take our domestic flight to Ushuaia. Our checked bag limit was only 33 pounds, so we each left a carry-on bag at our hotel holding items for our hot weather tours so we could have lighter bags
Our 3 1/2 hour flight delivered us to Ushuaia just before lunch and we immediately boarded a bus to tour around this 80,000 person town at the bottom of the world. The wind was howling around us so hard that it was hard to stand up straight and I wondered how that would affect us in the Drake Passage.
Ushuaia used to be a naval base and Andrea, whose Dad was an admiral in the Navy, spent some of her childhood here.
After touring through this picturesque town, we drove onto the pier and boarded our expedition ship, the MS Fridtjof Nansen. Upon entering our suite 848, we found a bottle of champagne chilling on ice and a gift of two watches waiting for us. What a surprise!Read more