Day 27 – Happy Halloween It's 4:16 a.m. on Halloween morning. Since leaving Vancouver, we have traveled over 6,000 nautical miles and it doesn’t feel like we’ve left the hotel yet. I’m awaken by the tossing and turning of the ship. First we go way up in the bow and then down, rolling from port to starboard in the waves. The old girl is making her way through the rough waves tonight and the creaking is louder than normal. The glass in our ...

Puerto Montt, Chile We avoided the rough seas last night - waves were to be as high as 5 meters or 16 feet, but we thankfully pulled into Relconvavi Sound early because of increased speed by the captain. We are on time as usual and get set for the tender into town. Today looks like yet another overcast and rainy day. We are apparently the first cruise ship of the season. Puerto Montt is a port city and commune in southern Chile, located at the northern end of t...

Sea Day – Enroute to Puerto Montt. Today is Day 25 – only eleven days left to go before we dock in Buenos Aires. Given the captain's weather warning last night of high swells – today has been pretty respectable so far. There’s blue skies and big fluffy clouds, but there are much more white caps on the water than on our whole trip combined. The captain has apparently sped up a little (21knots) to see if we can get into the protected waters...

We woke up to glorious sunshine today and 27C temperatures. It's really a nice break since we’ve had mostly cloudy skies for the last few days. Valparaiso was a non-tour stop for us so we hooked up with two other couples and did a "Tour 4 Tips" walk around of the city. It turned out to be great; Felipe was very informative and high energy, which made the street tour all that much better. Nice place Valparaiso. There are of course the dangerous areas and i...

Day 22 – Coquimbo/La Serena Today is Day 22 of the cruise – sadly only 14 days left – but more importantly these next few days will likely be the best part of the whole trip. We arrived again into overcast, but warm skies in the main port, Coquimbo. Today's tour was $60.00US p.p. which is big savings over the HAL tour – especially since this is a 7-½ hour tour. We head out on the biggest bus yet for our 30 people, so we’ve got...