Double Digits!

Ninety-nine days...from today! I may be a little premature in posting about our next adventure but considering we booked over 500 days in advance it seems like we are finally getting close!

A couple of other events are also making our upcoming cruise start to feel real. This past week we made our final cruise payment and also visited a travel clinic to get the recommended vaccines for our trip (more on this later). I must admit both were a little painful!

So where are we going? To ANTARCTICA! Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think that we would travel to the end of the world! My daughter-in-law (the geography teacher) was excited when she found out and commented that so many people visit the other continents but very few make it to Antarctica. In my mind, putting a tick mark next to Antarctica before we have traveled to any other continents is like eating dessert before the meal.  😉 Whether true or not, I keep reading that visitors to Antarctica may soon be limited and I want to get there before it is too late!

Our 22-day cruise begins in Santiago, Chile and takes us past Cape Horn and through the Drake passage to Antarctica. As we head back north, we have a stop in the Falkland Islands before ending up in Buenos Aires.

The ship we are traveling on? The Holland America Zaandam. The same ship we were on this past spring when we cruised for 23 days from Florida...through the Panama Canal...and up to Canada. I expect we will feel very much at home when we board!

Source: HollandAmerica.com