Journey to the end of the world...and now coming back...well trying to...

Quoted by city officials as the Southern Most City in the World, we spent the last 4 days in Ushuaia, hiking, climbing, walking, freezing and more. If you come down here, you MUST do it between Nov-Feb when you have the opportunity to take a boat another 800 KM and touch mainland ANTARTICA!!
We feel so dumb for not having investigated this at the start of our trip to see when the passageways closed down because being so close yet so far is a real bummer. Plus next year the price is going up another 1000 dollars! Basically it will cost about $5000 per person for a 10 day excursion to Antartica. This price will only go up as more and more people take this off-beaten trip and catch this place before it melts more into the sea!
At the moment we are stranded at nothing less than the "Straights of Magellan" trying to get onto mainland continent of Chile. See the ocean over here is choppier than I've ever seen in my life. Sure...you might think after that nightmare of a trip we had on water some weeks back what are we doing..??? Well, truth is that this appears to be a huge ferry that will ship us across. There are about 10 buses and 30 trucks waiting to get across. We've been here about 3 hours just waiting for the ferry to arrive (typically every hour) but until the winds die down or changes direction we'll be here. It could be another hour or ten it all depends on mother nature.
Speaking of mother nature, I would like to let everybody reading this know that nature has an absolutely incredible way of changing landscapes, climates, colors, smells, lighting, sounds in no time at all. We left from Ushuaia on a bus this morning at 5:30 AM, and now, almost 11 hours later we are surrounded by freezing, hurricane-like winds, pelting beads of sand and mini pebbles, barren landscape, and dry brown dirt. Ushuaia on the other hand had some of the most precious forests, in millions of autumn browns, yellows, and oranges, powerful snow-capped mountains, sea lions, maritime, cold adapted birds, bright blue skies and calm waters on Beagle Canal!
It might be very obvious that landscapes change, but it's just that in the past 3 months since we left NYC, we have seen soooooo many varying landscapes that I just want to say thank you to mother nature for providing it all.... Soooo... Did all of you do something for the planet on Earth Day Tuesday, April 22?!
If not do it today, like for instance, turn off the water while brushing your teeth!!
Another thing you could do is shop online, say how about clicking on the NorthFace link below and shopping online instead of going in car to the store!!! Nice plug huh??!!
How about buying us some proper winter gear down here!!!! Hahahaaha...later
We'll defintely put up some pics, promise.

C4 and SL300 lost the chip, can you refit it again remotely? ;-))

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