February 18, 2020 - Santiago Another trial run to find the language school. Actually, we had truly found it yesterday. We just were not convinced we had the correct location since the name on the outside of the building was different - we thought, yes, this is a language school, just not ours. Well, it turns out that was the correct location. Seems the school we booked, closed their Santiago location and outsourced our classes to this location, Escuela Bellavist...

Santiago, Chile - February 16, 2020 Yes! Si! We are here! Estamos aqui! That's the exciting part, but, as most people our age know, life goes on - detailed agendas and planning, while extremely useful life-tools, have little impact on pure daily life. First let me start with . . . just two days before our cruise ended, Stan became ill, very ill. We have no idea why or how but he started growing slow-moving and he developed headaches. He just lost himself....

Punta Arenas, Chile - Sunday, February 8 - 9, 2020 Oh my, our time on this 14-day cruise is going by so quickly! Typically we wake in the morning, prepare to explore the day's port, eat breakfast, and participate in an available excursion. This will probably not be good news for cruise lines but as a side note, we and many other passengers rarely book excursions through the ship any longer. We generally find the very same or similar excursions available by vendo...

Back on line and much catching up to do.A note, we are having great difficulty with photos--which slows down progress for posting blogs. Many of my photos from my iphone 10SX saved as HEIC files. We are just learning about this but when a photo saves as such it cannot be uploaded to many sites. What a royal pain. Thank you, Apple for this latest complexity. I will take hints from any friendly Apple gurus. We have been on board ship 6 nights but I still think of ...

What a grand day! We chucked that Hop On Hop Off Bus and walked! And boy did we walk! What I failed to say yesterday is that we have graduated from the Hop On Hop Off. Yes, indeed, these bus tours provide a quick drive-by of all the major sights in a city but it's difficult to learn very much. They provide headsets by which you listen to recorded narratives with information about important places on the route. My problem is I never know if the sight is coming u...