{"id":452,"date":"2023-01-09T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/?p=452"},"modified":"2023-02-11T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T01:09:59","slug":"travel-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Travel Log"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TL;DR Summary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>Day<\/td>Location<\/td>Notes<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Dec 26, 2022<\/td>Departed US<\/td>Departed DCA, connection at JFK, first time in international business class<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>Dec 27, 2022<\/td>Buenos Aires, Argentina <\/td>Arrived in Argentina; took a fantastic private city tour with Sailing BA Tours<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Dec 28, 2022<\/td>Buenos Aires, Argentina <\/td>Check in and COVID test with Hurtigruten; toured Recoleta Cemetery and the National Railroad Museum; amazing steak dinner<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Dec 29, 2022<\/td>Ushuaia, Argentina<\/td>Chaotic airport, delayed flight, rainy city, delicious empanadas, first time on the ship<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/td>Dec 30, 2022<\/td>Drake Passage, Attempt 1<\/td>Drake Shake; medical emergency forced us back to Ushuaia\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Dec 31, 2022<\/td>Drake Passage, Attempt 2<\/td>Drake Lake; New Year’s Eve countdown miscue<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/td>Jan 1, 2023<\/td>Deception Island<\/td>Snow and 60 knot winds canceled landing activities; saw Whalers Bay from the ship<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>Jan 2, 2023<\/td>Foyn Harbor & Orne Harbour <\/td>100-year-old shipwreck, icebergs, hiked 400ft up a mountain on the Antarctic continent\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/td>Jan 3, 2023<\/td>Petermann & Hovgaard Islands<\/td>Penguins, whales, icebergs, glaciers<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/td>Jan 4, 2023<\/td>Lemaire Channel & Damoy Point<\/td>Narrow, beautiful channel in the snow; penguins and old research huts<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/td>Jan 5, 2023<\/td>Neko Harbor<\/td>Whales, glaciers, icebergs, penguins<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/td>Jan 6, 2023<\/td>Drake Return<\/td>Drake Shake Part 2, boot return\/cleaning, officer Q&A<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/td>Jan 7, 2023<\/td>Drake Return<\/td>Drake Medium, bridge tour, packing<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/td>Jan 8, 2023<\/td>Ushuaia & Buenos Aires <\/td>Charter flight, chaos at Ezeiza Airport<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/td>Jan 9, 2023<\/td>Arrive US<\/td>Safely home with no lost luggage<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL;DR Summary Day Location Notes 1 Dec 26, 2022 Departed US Departed DCA, connection at JFK, first time in international business class 2 Dec 27, 2022 Buenos Aires, Argentina  Arrived in Argentina; took a fantastic private city tour with Sailing BA Tours 3 Dec 28, 2022 Buenos Aires, Argentina  Check in and COVID test with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-antarctica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerdmeetsworld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}