Around the World with Marsha & Joel

A hair-raising experience — sailing through the windy fjords of Patagonia. We were on a beautiful catamaran making our way up these amazingly picturesque waterways. Every direction offered a more spectacular view than the one before. A lot of camera and iPhone batteries running out of charge quickly. What a glorious two hours.

Turn of events! After breakfast we were told the weather was not good for a landing at Magdalena Island, so we’d probably miss out on penguin spotting this trip. But Patti, our guide had a hunch and had our bus sit outside the ferry operator’s office and bugged them to keep checking until the deadline hour.

Thursday afternoon and we were off to Philly to catch an American flight to Miami for our connection to Santiago, Chile. All looked good until boarding was stopped…to check an engine. Sound familiar? Our recent trip to Italy started similarly, and the flight was actually cancelled, making us a day late.