Antarctica is exciting, but first I had to get to Buenos Aires from Phoenix, where my friends Lee and Leslie Croft offered to babysit my car.
The entire trip ended up being 29 hours door to door. Partly my fault, since I had a long wait in Atlanta. I allowed extra time between flights because I wasn’t sure where I would to start the trip when I bought the flight to Buenos Aires, and it was a good thing I did. I flew to Atlanta and then had to gather my luggage and board a shuttle to the international terminal. The whole process ended up taking nearly three hours.
After an overnight flight I was treated to the experience of standing in line to get through customs and then wait for my luggage to arrive. The whole process took 2 1/2 hours, most of which was spent in a hallway waiting to get into the customs area where another long line waited.
The best thing was that the driver I had arranged to take my friend Carol and I to our hotel waited for us AND was handsome. When we got to the hotel the access was blocked by a street market, and our handsome host dragged our bags over cobblestone streets for three blocks to the hotel.
After a lovely dinner in an Italian restaurant…in Argentina, go figure…we were ready to rest and get ready to board our cruise the next day.
We stayed in a Hilton boutique hotel, the Anselmo, and it was lovely. With an open courtyard and, most importantly, a bar staffed by friendly and helpful bartenders, we enjoyed our short stay.
Travels with Billie 