An Antartica January, 7-9 Antarctica is very far away and includes the South Pole. We flew 5,500 miles due South from New York City to Buenos Aires, then 2,000 miles further south to Ushuaia at the southern tip of South America in Patagonia and then by ship 500 miles further South through the Drake Passage. Although it is almost as far away from DC as is Shanghai which has a 13 hr. time difference, there is only a 2 hour time difference (ahead) in the part of Antarctica we visit because we are almost at the same longitude. Argentina has a population of 42 million with 13M living in the Buenos Aires metro area. It also has more than 50M cows (and they don’t live in Buenos Aires). Ushuaia, Argentina (the city at the end of the world) now has a population of 100,000 but started out 100 years ago as a penal colony for Argentina. Before that it was the home to Indigenous people who suffered the same fate as in North America. Millions of yea...