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Prepping for our Antarctica cruise
This is not your typical cruise.
My husband Drew and I have never been on a cruise before. All you can eat buffets three times a day don’t appeal much to us. However, it appears that between sightings of penguins and seals, we will be eating in such a style on our first cruise come February…
…in Antarctica!
Getting there will involve flying to Buenos Aires, Argentina, then taking a shorter flight to the port city of Ushuaia which is widely lauded as “the southernmost city in the world.” (A smaller settlement south of it, Puerto Williams, has legit dibs to the title, but we won’t quibble.) The following day, we will board a ship with 130 or so other intrepid souls. In all, the cruise will span a couple of weeks.
We’d planned to do this two years ago but plans were derailed by COVID. Now that it’s almost upon us, it’s become real and exciting.
As I am discovering, prepping for Antarctica is going to be more involved than packing for your typical vacation. Primarily, I am having to purchase some serious cold weather gear rated for, metaphorically-speaking, a 24-hour stint in a grocery food store freezer. With an ice block on my head and extremities.
Meanwhile, Drew, who was a sled dog race vet for a decade and still relishes memories of the time they were stuck…
