No, We Haven’t Left Yet. That’s December 18.

My Alaska blog suddenly cut off, because apparently I had signed up for the free version of WordPress back in 2019 when the amount of free storage was 3 GB, and I had reached that limit. To increase the storage required starting a subscription, which I did not want to do on the ship’s wifi. At that time (back in August 2025), I figured our next trip wouldn’t be until April 2026, so why bother paying for a subscription I wasn’t going to use for 9 months?

And then we decided 9 months to our next adventure was was completely unacceptable!

We decided to book the cruise we’d been talking about for years, but never got around to doing it – the east coast of South America down to Patagonia!

Round trip from Buenos Aires, which made the airfare easier to book. Of course, this means it will be the South American summer – which is great! It’s been so cold here in Maryland for the entire month of December, that I’m looking forward to a snippet of summer.

Plus here in Maryland daylight hours are still shrinking. In South America, we’ll be back in full summer daylight, and a midnight sun in Patagonia.

We’ll be arriving on December 19, a day before we’re scheduled to board our ship, because we don’t trust the airlines at all. After we disembark the ship on January 3, we’ll be in Buenos Aires for a few more days before returning home on January 8.

Note: For about half of the trip it will be hot, and the other half it will be cold. Long range weather forecasts for Ushuaia shows highs in the 30s and rain. That’s what I bought a new rain jacket and rain pants for.

¡Vámanos!