Ushuaia, Argentina

I love Ushuaia, Argentina. I’ve been a couple times before, and it remains one of my favorite ports in South America. The countryside is cut with the jagged line of the Andes Mountains. There’s one spot where there’s a glacier hidden under snow at the top of the mountain. You can take a ski lift halfway up then hike the rest of the way. I had done the hike before, but the weather wasn’t as nice as it was this time. At first it was overcast and we even got some hail and sleet on the way up, but then in the span of two minutes the sky cleared and the sun smiled on us with a rainbow.

This time I went with Harrie the engineer. Some of the other engineers were supposed to go, but they chickened out at the last minute. It was probably for the best though, because Harrie is an avid hiker and we were able to keep up a pretty good pace and get up to the snow quickly. Harrie doesn’t like getting his picture taken, but he’s very photogenic and I was snapping away until he finally had enough. He kept saying we would moonwalk down, and I didn’t understand what he was talking about until he did it. I was thinking Michael Jackson. I finally saw what he meant when he came bounding down the mountain through the snow like an astronaut.

Katie