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Jumping back over here, years later! Our Expedition Cruise on Atlas Ocean Voyages - March 2024

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Once again it has been far, far too long since my last entry. And I will pick up back where I left off at some point. There were many days left of that trip, and there have been many more since! I had been sharing pictures of my travels only on Facebook pages - both my business page Getaways Done Your Way , and my personal page, for awhile, but I decided to come back here to my blog to be able to share more of the details. The stories that go with all of these pictures I love so much!  This journey starts in March 2024 when my son, Alex, and I traveled to Argentina for our first Expedition Cruise! About a year ago Alex had mentioned to me that he wanted to go to Ushuaia to see the penguins. He's a wildlife conservationist and quite a birder, so a trip there is very high up on his list! We had the opportunity to sail on Atlas Ocean Voyages on an itinerary that I knew he would love - from Ushuaia to Buenos Aires, with stops in the Falkland Islands and the coast of Argentina.  We drov

Mykonos!! Our voyage continues! 09/26/19

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I've been a horrible blogger! It's been more than a month since my last post, and it's been four months since we've returned from our trip that I'm blogging about. It has definitely been a busy few months, but I suppose the nice thing about taking time to write about our adventures is that I get to relive our experiences all over again when I'm sharing them!  So here we are, the 6th day of our trip, and the 5th day of the cruise.  The day before was such a beautiful day, spent in Santorini and today we are docking in Mykonos! We had an early arrival, at 8 am, so we got to watch the sun come up over the island.  Mykonos is another tender port, and we would be visiting Delos today, so we decided to go with a ship tour to make it easy to coordinate the ferry ride over along with the tender.  We were off the ship early and on our way! Once we all were gathered in a group we walked around the port area to where the ferry would t