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punctuated by a white seascape of ice
ANTARCTICA—A LONG-HELD DREAM COME TRUE and then - total nothingness.

There was a short-hike option in this
E ver since I was a little girl and learned of the seven to write about this day, other than it was good to see what resort town through their Natural
continents, I’ve always dreamed of stepping foot on
amounted to be familiar places that felt to me like enjoying the
Reserve. I forgo that walk to rest my
all of them. After I realized my dream on the first six,
warmth of meeting an old friend.
right foot at the restaurant lobby where
I have started to quietly search tours of the one and
only continent I have yet to conquer. We settled in the night at our comfortable hotel which we were served buffet lunch. The day
maintained its architectural legacy of stairway and balconies
And conquer I did, starting on February 21 to March 4, 2019. The with ornate iron works in the famous Recoleta District of before I injured it when I tripped inside
PROLOGUE
the Cathedral of Jose de San Martin in
journey, which is like no other I took previously, began at SFO Buenos Aires. We got up very early for a flight that will Buenos Aires. The mid-afternoon came
for a seven plus hour flight to Mexico City, Mexico. We crossed quickly and we proceeded to board our
the equator on the downward directions for the fourth time ship for the Emblematic Antarctica Tour
when we continued our 12-hour flight to Buenos Aires, Argentina. where after a very delectable French
Buenos Aires is a city I have visited years ago, style dinner, we all started to brace
it was reassuring that it has remained its ourselves for crossing the Drake Passage,
vibrant and friendly self.
the one waterway that even experienced
With very little sleep for the last 24 and hardened seafarers fear, I think every
hours and after checking in early in tourist who successfully crossed this
our hotel, I nonchalantly joined an passage that took two days deserves a
afternoon walking tour of the city medal regardless of whether they get
with my two travel companions. sick during the journey or not.
This City is aptly called the From this point on, I have a daily
Paris of South America, rich in journal with photos and narrative
culture and history, buildings take us to the southern-most part of the continent of that characterized and detailed my
are magnificently European in South America called Ushuaia. It’s a small resort town with worthwhile and unforgettable adventure
architecture and their avenues mountain peaks that were spectacularly covered with snow. of a lifetime which included seven Ports
are so wide and grand. In the it was our gateway to Antarctica and if I did not know any of Call. Antarctica, you are completely
early evening, we met up with better, I would have concluded that I reached the end of the untamed, unspoiled and inhospitable, Mila Llorente is with Linda Rose Victoire Byers at Air
the other adventurous tourists in world. There was really nothing to see if you look farther south but I LOVE YOU! France - KLM Lounge at SFO on Feb. 20, 2019
our Group for dinner. Not much of it other than the vast, distant and pristine body of water

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