This trip has been over one year in the making. At the end of 2020, Covid was sorta, may be winding down and our interests in international travel were ratcheting up. Mission/service dentistry was hoped for in summer 2021, Grenada specifically, and another trip to the South Pacific with Canvasback. We had also been thinking about an Antarctica trip, December 2021, so we committed to that adventure, thinking it would be 'post-Covid'.
As 2021 progressed, all service missions were canceled for the summer as both the Caribbean and Pacific nations were still closed due to a lack of vaccine availability. Antarctica is only 'open' in their summer/our winter, so we kept our fingers crossed. Then we had the Delta surge in the fall and now the Omicron hiccup, but it is still a go.
Timeline: Leave California Friday, December 17, set sail for Antarctica, Sunday, December 19. We will be Covid tested here at home before we leave and in Orlando again before we head south to Ushaia, Argentina. Two flights: non-stop SFO to Orlando and non-stop from Orlando to Ushaia, (11 hours) on the southernmost tip of Argentina. Quarantine when we arrive, another Covid test, then we board the ship heading to Antarctica.
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