Day 19 · January 7, 2028 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
The ship ties up in Buenos Aires in the morning. The brown water outside your window looks the way it did on December 21.
There are seventeen days between those two mornings.
What seventeen days covered
You crossed the widest river on earth. Or the widest estuary, depending on which side of that argument you take.
You spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at sea.
You stood on the shore of the Strait of Magellan, in the town that sent the ship that saved Shackleton’s men. You ate in the southernmost city in the world.
You crossed the Drake Passage twice.
You watched four days of ice go by in light that never fully went dark. You started a new year in front of it.
You walked a village in the Falklands with a whalebone arch, and a market hall in Uruguay full of open fires.
Three countries, one British territory, and a continent that belongs to nobody. Four currencies.
Disembarkation and your flight home
Disembarkation runs through the morning. Your flight from Ezeiza should leave no earlier than 1:00 p.m., so that you have time to disembark and reach the airport without rushing. The airport is forty-five minutes to an hour from the pier.
If your flight is late in the evening, book a day room or a city tour. Buenos Aires in January is hot, bright, and open late.
