It is Wednesday morning, checkout was 10am, pickup to go to the ship is 10:45,so we are cooling our heals til then.  Yesterday we landed in Ushusuia (U. Sue E A) tour guide met us at the airport entrance, with the tour company name and each of our names.  And surprise as each party booked their tours each booking had its separate guide.  I booked as a single, so had my own guide, the others had couple, two couples, and one more single.  And we'd meet here and there during the next four hour tour of the national park of Terra del Flago.   The mountains to the north, West and South are Chile, but we are in Argentina.   After the tour we met again at the same hotel.  There are two main streets, San Martin and Maipu.  Ran across the same names in BA.  The first is the Father of Argentina (and Peru & Chile)  the second is a major battle for independence.   Ate at small restaurant, OK.... The are about 60,000 people plus a significant number of illegals.  Walked the town for about  four hours  & went to the main museum. til 7:30 PM.  The museum is in the old prison, which was the reason for founding this town, just as USA was sometime after the pilgrims, and Australia.  Then the town grew on it's own thereafter, with tax free industry...   Are a lot of shops, many based n tourism and sports.  Hiking in the summer, down hill skying in the winter.  There is some fishing, and a lot of freight in & out of the port, including almost all food, as it is too cold to grow much here other than potatoes, lettuce...cold weather crops.  Slept well  in nice hotel ina suite with living room-kitchen, bedroom &bath.  Scandivan in style.  After breakfast we had to go to the tourist office and register to get aboard the ship, because when we get offe we will be in Chile, Punta Arenas.  After the check in I went back to the museum.  It is a star shaped building with jail cells onboth sides of each hallway with a different  exhibit in each cell.  Some

are well done, others it seems they were trying  fill up some exhibit in every cell.  Sure we're a huge number of ships that sank in the various waterways around here.  Stopped in a small sandwich shop and had a ham n cheese... 65 pecos.  Sounds like a lot of money, til you remember to divide by 15.a little more than 4 $ US.    It's cold, but my  sweater and jacket are in my suitcase  and I don't rejoin them for another 90 minutes.  I'm in our hotel, or it was my hotel before I checked out this morning, but it is nice and warm.  ........captions :  me in jail "at the end of the world, how well dressed prisoners pose for their pictures,the museum jail, next two pics are of the 1982 war memorial for those who died in the IslesMelvanes war (Falkland Island war),  it rained last night and this morning here in town, but a few feet higher it was the second snow of the coming winter.