In Buenos Aires we realized the 50 hour bus ride to the southern tip of the continent was not exactly worth the scenery and possible blood circulation issues. Though the buses here are very comfortable and can even lay flat into beds while they serve you champagne. We luckily got some of the last few plane tickets down there for the next morning for about the same price of the bus, and we were there in four hours. Also of note: the plane cruised at only 10,000 feet the entire flight so we had nice views of the coast and ocean below. We had a spectacular landing over snow capped peaks to a small peninsula runway in the bay of the southernmost city in the world with the next mass of land being Antarctica. We got an ok hostel with great views of the water and surrounding mountains. We spent four days there climbing up the Glacier Martial behind town, our first camp night in the Tierra Del Fuego National Park, and walked around a few thousand penguins on a nearby nesting island. The penguins were definitely the highlight of our visit walking within a few feet of the penguins and their 20 day old babies. It was a beautiful day for it as this town and area of the country can bring rain at any moment with winds generally around 20-30 mph and hovering around freezing at night most of the summer. It was definitely a shock to come from Buenos Aires, where it was nearly 100 and Atlanta summer sticky, to freezing temperatures within a few hours. As I write we are on a bus through some of the most expansive barren land we have ever seen just passing through the Chilean border on our way to Punta Arenas for a night. Now that we've got our hiking legs under us we will then head off for our longest hike around the Torres Del Paine national park, which should take us around nine days to complete camping out each night. See you when we get back! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!