My path to Antarctica

Greetings!  My name is Dylan and I am an adventurer.  One of my personal mottos is "Live to Travel, Travel to Live".  My desire to travel the world began as a child through reading about heroes and their adventures.  I'm no hero, but I want to tell whoever is willing to read about my adventures.  I have been to 20 states in the United States, 11 countries, and 6 continents.  As you can guess by my post that the last continent is not Antarctica (It's Australia).  I went to Antarctica at the end of December and I want to share about my experiences there because it is truly one of the most magnificent places on earth.  I think it's safe to say that most of you reading this have never seen Antarctica first hand, but I hope that my musings will make you look into going or book your own adventure there.

This blog will be broken up into daily logs from my traveling journal.  I'd also like to blog about future journeys, so as I travel more I shall post about those trips.  I may even look back at past trips or give a basic rundown of my time in certain locations.  Obviously my blog entries will be posted in spurts, but even when the blog is inactive I'd like to hear about the travels of those of you reading this.

Argentina & Antarctica Trip Day 1
Monday, December 30th, 2013
Steps Taken: 5,876

Scott, Dan, and I left Scott's apartment after a night of listening to overly loud Latin neighbors and griping about girl/guy problems.  With a breakfast of oatmeal nestling in our bellies, we took a cab to La Guardia Airport.  We were flying from La Guardia to Miami as the first of three(four because of a midflight layover) flights to Ushuaia, Argentina.

After a bit of confusion on checking in and whether our bags would make it to Ushuaia or be abondoned in Miami, we played the waiting game.  La Guardia is not my main choice of local airports because it is such a pain to get to, but it is a nice airport despite the fact that the entire airport was littered with iPads.  I travel to ignore those things though I ignore Apple in general.

The 1st flight was decent.  We left at 11:15 and arrived in Miami around 2pm.  Once we arrived in Miami, we needed to get our next boarding passes, however we had difficulty finding the AeroLineas booth and our flight gate.  Our flight, which was supposed to leave at 5:30 was delayed an hour although we really didn't take off until 7:30.  The joys of flying!  This flight was a bit more uncomfortable and this made it difficult to sleep on the trip to Buenos Aires, but I usually can never sleep well on flights.