{"id":18565,"date":"2020-12-29T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=18565"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:11:06","slug":"purple-ribbons-for-the-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=18565","title":{"rendered":"Purple Ribbons for the Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally posted December 29, 2005 by Linda Lou Burton from Drake Passage, Argentina &#8211; <\/em>Last day on the ship! Here\u2019s the sedge-ool, we\u2019ve been told.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>1000 Pick up your colored ribbons. Purple for flight #1, red for #2. Attach to luggage, put luggage outside cabin door by 2200 hours.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1100 Alan Parker lecture: The Antarctic Treaty and the Future of Antarctica, Kapp Horn Hall.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1200 Lunch buffet.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1430 Manuel\u2019s Annual Bird Drawing Contest (multi-lingual all ages) in Torghatten Salong \u2013 Prizes! Prizes! (will my poem win?)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1630 Special Charity Auction to raise money for Antarctic research. For bidding \u2013 Expedition Jackets and the Captain\u2019s Master Voyage Chart!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>1900 Captain\u2019s Dinner.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?attachment_id=18696\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-18696\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM4442.e-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM4442.e-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM4442.e-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM4442.e-768x913.jpg 768w, https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/HPIM4442.e.jpg 1245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a>And then, early to bed. Breakfast tomorrow at 6, depart the ship by 8. Get off in Ushuaia, southernmost city in the world. I have purple ribbons I need to tie on the fancy-schmancy luggage, after I try to stuff everything back in, that is. Have I accumulated much?<\/p>\n<p>I bought a wooden sheep at Estancia Fitz Roy, a tiny thing; just now I bought three watercolors from Doug. He\u2019d painted Evie, the penguin I met at Admiralty Bay. And my certificate that I&#8217;d rounded the Horn, and reached the continent of Antarctica, a real prize!<\/p>\n<p>I need to settle the bill, I need to calculate the tip. The sun is shining now, we\u2019re riding north, Atlantic on the right, Pacific on the left. South America dead ahead.<\/p>\n<p>This time tomorrow, I\u2019ll be in Argentina. Solid ground, no more rock and roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted December 29, 2005 by Linda Lou Burton from Drake Passage, Argentina &#8211; Last day on the ship! Here\u2019s the sedge-ool, we\u2019ve been told. 1000 Pick up your colored ribbons. Purple for flight #1, red for #2. Attach to luggage, put luggage outside cabin door by 2200 hours. 1100 Alan Parker lecture: The Antarctic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4118],"tags":[4191,4182,244,3999,4249,3361,4166,3636,4155,4248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18697,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}