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Thursday, January 26. 2012

Cool trip - Rio to Santiago

A friend of mine told me he is taking this trip this winter, with his two brothers through the Strait of Magellan and then up north along the coast of Chile.

He said they decided that they wanted to bond and reconnect before they get old. Sounds like a very cool trip, and cheap. He said he was going to take photos of Albatrosses. I warned him not to shoot one because nothing good comes of it.

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Did the Drake's Passage trip when I was 28 on a 62' custom made Bristol sail boat. I will say it was fun - the Passage wasn't "active" when we went through but "active" is a relative term. :>)

I've never done the Straits of Magellan trip, but I know some folks who have and they all speak highly of it. They should have some fun.

#1 Tom Francis on 2012-01-26 17:17 (Reply)

Made a "Unitas" cruise in 1970 on the USS John Willis De1027. We went down the Atlanic side, hitting multable ports in Venezuela ,Brazil, and Argentina. We went thru the Straits of Magellan then up the Pacific side thru the Chilean Inland Waterways to Peru, Ecuador and Columbia, again with multable ports. Thru the Canel, then Panama City, finishing the last port visit at San Juan, PR. We didn't stop in Chile since Allende was in power. Then home to Newport, RI. I spent 20 years in the Navy and made Med , Westpac, and Carribean cruises but that South American cruise was the highlight of my Navy Career.

#2 Haze Gray on 2012-01-26 17:41 (Reply)

I wonder how many people got your sly reference to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Recently, I got on the elevator with a young attorney carrying a case of bottled water. Nodding, I commented, "So you are the designated Gunga Din today, eh?" and received a blank stare in return. Trying to recover from what I did not think was a particularly obscure reference, I said, "You know, the poem by Rudyard Kipling?" The look of confusion on his face became greater still, so I got off on my floor before I dug the hole even deeper. . . . sigh

#3 Nashville Beat on 2012-01-26 19:00 (Reply)

NB,

Only "If"...eh?

#3.1 Garry on 2012-01-26 20:00 (Reply)

Made the trip around through the Drake Passage during the summer of '76 aboard a foreign warship; the Roaring 40's really did roar on the way south. It was so cold our heads (bathrooms) froze solid - for two weeks. (Flushing water came from a 50 gal barrel up in the overhead - it, too, froze solid). The trip up through the Inland Passages along the Chilean Andrean coastline, though, was awesome - freezing cold, but awesome.

#4 Old Salt on 2012-01-27 00:38 (Reply)

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