Montevideo, Uruguay – Day 34 Today was another great day – we did a 4-mile walking tour of the city center. Thankfully the port was right there so we got underway on the first tender off the ship. Deb and I were moving before some people finished their breakfast. Montevideo is a pretty decent town. We managed to get into one of the national galleries and there was an interesting interactive art display that provided some pretty interesting shots that...

We’ll we were able to get off at Stanley today. The waters are calm and the sun is actually breaking through some of the clouds, apparently a pretty rare day from what they say as only 4 of the last 10 cruise ship attempts have been successful. We were first tender off – and with only 1,200 inhabitants we didn’t really feel that this was going to be jam packed with things to see. Pretty basic town, I guess 32 years ago, back in 1982 when the ...

November 4, 2014 – Rounding The Horn Today at 8:20 a.m. we rounded "The Horn". Leaving Ushuaia we headed further south for the Strait of Magellan towards Cape Horn. The loudspeaker in our room came on at just at 7:00 warning guests NOT to be on any of the outside decks – according to the Captain, we were in 30' swells and were experiencing gale force winds in excess of 100 m.p.h. Our cabin is on the first floor outside which generally affords us a pr...

I can’t believe the weather we’ve been getting – it’s really been on our side – cold yes, but blue skies and no rain. I was up at 6:30 a.m. and dressed for the cold, windy Promenade Deck because of the five glaciers we’d be passing prior to our arrival in Ushuaia, Argentina. I dressed real warm and headed out – thank god for the hot chocolate that the ship was serving on the open deck. My pictures don’t do this just...

Punta Arenas – Tour Day – Otoway Penguin Colony I was a little slow off the mark today. We had a 7:00 a.m. call for our tour today, but I was dragging based on our little party last night. Vince, Karen, Deb and I took two of the cruise staff to dinner last night in one of the specialty restaurants. This was not meant to be a nice gesture, oh no. I'm learning from my now good friend Obie Won Kenobi how to work the deals here onboard the Zaandam. See, ...