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The Antarctica Adventure Begins Tonight–Day One

Sky Club photoThe packing is complete….kinda.  Our bags are a little over the weight limit (to be expected) but not by much (a definite surprise!).  Tonight we will depart from JFK in New York City to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first leg of our trip will be a ten-hour overnight flight from New York City to São Paulo Brazil. Fortunately, we are flying in Delta One, so sleeping should be pretty easy and the food and service are always excellent. This picture is the first “blue ice” that we have encountered. Go Delta!

In the morning, we will have a two-hour layover in São Paulo Brazil (not too much time given that we need to check our bags through Brazillian customs) then fly to Buenos Aires, which is two hours ahead of New York City. The plan is to spend the night at the Alvear Palace Hotel which was arranged for us by Silversea. Although everything is pretty well planned for an adventure such as this, we really do not know what will happen next. I will try to update this blog from Buenos Aires. Stay tuned.

Planning an Antarctica Adventure

“If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.”
― Andrew Denton

We started our planning almost a year ago. For us, water is a continuous theme. San Clemente, Costa Rica, Prince Edward Island, the Algarve Region in Portugal, the Galápagos Islands, Iceland……You get the idea! After a lot of thought, we decided that our next adventure should be to one of the most remote places on earth that also involves a lot of water travel…..Antarctica. Where to start?

Once we had settled on a location for our adventure, we turned to how we would actually get there. Flying to Patagonia sounded like the most logical option, but that only took us as far south as South America. How should we go from Patagonia to Antarctica? The best option is really on a ship, but which one? We could go on a large cruise ship, but would be limited in our ability to explore Antarctica. We decided to use an expedition cruise line which lead us to Silversea Expeditions. We found that the Silver Explorer would best meet our needs and trip timing, which would be December 2019.