Today was my last day in Ushuaia. My flight back to Buenos Aires is tomorrow morning. I know I still have a little bit of my vacation left, but today sort of put the cap on my entire Antarctica experience.
Even though the ship is gone, I can still see the port, and the town really is at the bottom of the world. When I leave tomorrow I'm going back to a big city and closer and closer to Minnesota.
But I still managed to make the best of today! I'm sort of losing my voice, so I slept in and had breakfast at the hotel. I walked around town this morning and noticed that there was some sort of event going on at the government office across the street. While I had nothing to do with that, there were lots of people everwhere and police regulating traffic. I wanted to go to the bank to get some more money but there were lines at all of them. I don't know if it was a Monday morning thing or not but I eventually walked past one that I could see into a little better and the people luckily weren't waiting for the atm.
After I had some money, I took a cab to the Martial Glacier. There's a chair lift you can take only about halfway and then the rest was a steep one hour climb. It was a little windy, but the views were worth it. I was able to see across the Beagle Channel to Chile's Isla Navarino. The hike back down took fairly long too. There are parts of the trail that you have to cross water and with it being so steep - I had to take it slower.
Back in town I was able to do some shopping and also then met Mauricio at his home for dinner. He made a meal that was a family recipe that was sort of like a casserole. It had onions and peppers and pumpkin and spices. It was really good. It's been so great spending time with him these last few days when I've been by myself. It helped me feel like my Antarctica trip lasted a little bit longer.
I have an early flight tomorrow so I'm headed to bed!
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