November 16, 2017
We have had a different kind of experience in preparation for this trip. We will be away for all of December missing all of the Christmas festivities at home. Originally, we booked two cruises with a week in between the cruises. The second cruise will have a different blog title. The original plans were to take a cruise through the Panama Canal leaving Florida and entering the Panama Canal from east to west and then cruising to Valparaiso, Chile, staying there for a week then boarding another ship and cruising south to Antarctica then north to Buenos Aires, Argentina. In late August, just before we left for New Delhi, India, we were advised that the Antarctic cruise embarkation port had been changed from Valparaiso, Chile, to San Antonio, Chile, - a port town 91 km south of Valparaiso taking route 68. We shortened our Valparaiso stay by a day at the end and arranged accommodation in San Antonio for the night bef...