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Travel Town Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Complete More Levels and Rebuild the Entire City

By: Author Barbara Craig

Posted on Last updated: April 6, 2022

Travel Town is a match and merge puzzle game developed by Magmatic Games, and it’s currently available on iOS and Android platforms. On top of the beautiful sharp graphics and matching sounds, Travel Town comes with an addictive gameplay, that fans of the genre will certainly enjoy.

To get you started on the right foot, we have put together a comprehensive Travel Town beginner’s guide . We will start this guide with explaining the basic mechanics and continue with effective strategies to advance quickly in the game, rebuild the city and help your neighbours. Of course, without forgetting to enjoy the thrill of finding new and better objects as you go merging.

Travel Town is visually similar and has the same mechanics as Merge Mansion , a game that we have covered before here at Level Winner. So if you had the pleasure of playing that game, then you probably won’t have any major problems going through Travel Town.

The game takes place in Travel Town, a beautiful seaside that was ravaged away by a storm. Your main objective is to restore it and help your neighbours who were left with nothing. Meanwhile, you discover new objects. The mechanics of the game consists of mixing matching objects to get better and better objects. You can sell these objects to your neighbours who in exchange will give you smileys among other rewards. Smileys are the in-game currencies in Travel Town, and you will use them to rebuild the town. To start to play you need to use energy. At the beginning you have 100 units of energy in the form of lightning and you must use it wisely to advance levels. But be careful, in between you must pay attention to how you organize yourself. Here I will share with you several tips and strategies to be able to advance quickly in Travel Town.

1. Starting From Scratch And Cleaning Your Place

At first, you will start with little free space to merge. Not only that, but you will also find spaces blocked by objects covered in sand. Do not worry that this is momentary and here you will see how to proceed to optimize your space.

These grey objects that you find buried in the sand have to be removed with a matching item. To do this you must take objects out of the bucket and mix until you get the one you are looking for.

Now you may ask: How do I know what I need to mix to get what I’m looking for? Well, at first you will not have major difficulties. Keep looking, you’re on the right track. Once you achieve to unlock the space you will have a little bit more room and be more comfortable.

Pay attention not to miss the opportunity to unlock a space if you have the same item. As you advance in level, more spaces will be freed up to work and you will be able to have a greater variety of objects. You will also be able to see stars with numbers drawn on the sand, these numbers indicate at what level that space is unlocked. But you may have to dig up some grey object from that new place. When the neighbours see what you achieve on the beach, they will add you to the chat group.

There you can keep up-to-date with everything they would like to improve about the city, as well as read pretty funny things apart from the fact that they don’t stop talking in that group.

2. Stay Organized And Save Space

Maintaining order in Travel Town can be crucial and makes the difference between an average player and a pro player. Maintaining order in the first levels is not something very difficult to achieve, since you will only have a couple of objects on the playground. But what happens as you go forward? As you advance in the game you will have a greater variety of objects at your disposal.

Not only that, but you will also have to achieve more complex objects and you will have the board with half-jobs distributed everywhere. So how can you improve this situation?

A good option is to organize them by type , this way you will have more ease when searching for a particular object. For example, you can group the objects that come out of the bucket in one corner, the objects that come out of the picnic basket in another corner, and so on. You can also save space by gathering all the same items , so you will have more free places.

Another option is to keep rare items, that you are not going to use for the time being, in the inventory. What happens if you follow the previous steps and still fill the sandbox with things? Can’t you keep mixing? Okay, do not worry! In this case, you have two options, one is to sell the objects in exchange for smileys, touching the object you want to sell and then below the currency symbol you can make the sale in exchange for smileys.

Some lower-tier items you will not be able to sell but if you need the space urgently you can remove them. You select the object first and then down in the garbage can. Throwing out the items does not benefit you since the sale value is not as good as the value for which the neighbours pay, but it’s still something. That’s why you have to try not to get to this point.

The inventory will also be enabled, where you can initially store up to 7 objects. You can unlock more slots in exchange for diamonds.

3. Keep Your Neighbours Happy And Successfully Deliver Orders

The neighbours seem to love the items you manage to get from the sand. That’s why they will be constantly requesting new items. Before starting to create an order object, you should review all the orders you have.

This way, you avoid making a very complicated request when you have an object that’s almost ready on your board. Sometimes the commands are very simple, but other times they are a bit more difficult. There may be unique objects , which you will have to find out where or how to get them. It may also be that you order 2 or 3 objects together.

And you have to get them all, they don’t take half orders. This may seem difficult, but as the game progresses you will become a master at delivering double or triple commands. I recommend that you try to start with the most difficult of the 2 items. When you get this object it will turn green, this way it is very easy to identify them and you will know that you have to deliver it.

An ideal scenario is that you group the objects in green in some sectors of the board where you do not move the items much. This is so that you don’t keep mixing it with the same item and you lose the needed level. So you will leave it waiting until you get the others.

Why shouldn’t you overdo the level? If you build higher-level objects, you will spend more energy and later you will not be able to sell them and they will take up space. Also, you will have to start from scratch to build it again and deliver it, since you cannot go back. For example: if a neighbour asks you for a Nautilus shell but you continue mixing until you reach a starfish, then you will not be able to go back and you will have to wait for someone to ask you for that object.

Another thing that can happen is that you see some requests in grey: when you see this, if you try to open it, it will tell you that you have to go up to the next level to be able to take that order. So first you must level up completing other orders and then you will see what the order is about.

4. Start Little By Little To Buy Buildings And Reform Them

As we mentioned before, smileys are the in-game currencies. You can spend smileys on keys, so you can rebuild the buildings of Travel Town. You have several options to get smileys:

Fulfilling the requests of the neighbours: You will constantly have orders to deliver. Although, some objects will not give you many smileys in return. Some neighbours are willing to pay fortunes for rare objects. But yes, you have to know how to find them.

Mixing certain objects: There are some objects such as photos or jewels that, when merged, may reward you smileys. You’ll notice because they will fly on the board, so don’t forget to collect them!

Buying smileys in the store: Some days there are available smileys in the store for purchase. It’s a lazy option and you must pay with diamonds in exchange if you do not want to merge.

Selling objects: Another good option is to sell some items that you have left and that you think you will not need. Once you sell an item, you will see how many smileys you got for that item in return.

Hmm… did you regret selling it? After the sale, you can recover the item by going down where it says undo selling and select the circular arrow. But be careful, once you select something else on the screen, the option to have the object returned to you will disappear.

Opening chests: The majority of the chests have smileys as a reward, and you will be able to get many out of them. But of course, getting chests is not easy. You will have to fulfil orders, level up or rebuild buildings to get them. Once you get the necessary resources you can start upgrading the city. Keep in mind that in this case, you are going to need a pile of wood planks as well as smileys. Later in this guide, we will explain how to get the materials.

5. Squeeze The Juice Out Of Your Resources

The items that allow you to advance in the game faster are the following 3. Don’t forget to take care of your resources because they are the key to success in Travel Town.

Smileys: You need to get the maximum number of smileys to be able to pay for the key to the land that you are acquiring and also for the restorations. Doing this will give you experience points and you will advance in level.

That’s why every time a face item appears on the board, it is recommended not to sell it immediately and keep them in the inventory to mix them and reach the maximum level. This way, you can obtain greater benefits than selling them one by one.

For example: If you only have one smiley and you sell it, they will give you 1 in exchange, but if you have 2, they will give you 3, if you have 4 they will give you 7, if you mix 8 they will give you 15, and if you reach the maximum level of the item (level 5) which is 16 will give you 32 smileys. This is a lot of difference to make if you are patient and wait until you have the maximum level before selling it.

Energies: the energies will allow you to continue loading objects on the board, they renew themselves from time to time, but, indeed, they are also spent quickly when you need to deliver an object. That’s why every time an energy item appears, like the smileys, it is recommended to keep them in the inventory to mix them and reach the maximum level. This way you can get more benefit from it, for an energy item at the maximum level, you will get 100 units of energy.

A tip to get more energy is to take a good look at the sign that appears when you run out, since sometimes to the right of the option to pay with diamonds it gives you the option to see a commercial in exchange for 25 energy.

And because they are short commercials, I think it’s worth watching the commercial instead of spending diamonds on energy.

Diamonds: Diamonds are definitely the most precious and that’s why you have to avoid wasting them. In Travel Town, you can use it for almost everything. For example, you can skip the waiting time of some items with diamonds, but is it worth it? Perhaps, you can be patient with the wait and use the diamonds to exchange them for space in the inventory or get energy at good prices.

Check the offers daily, there are days that for a few diamonds you can get energy packages or chests. And just like energies and smileys, diamonds can be pooled together to make the most profit from selling them. Don’t forget that every time you discover a new item, it will appear in the collection book as a gift.

You must open it and inside it, you will find a diamond. So every day at the end of playing you can go to the book to continue completing the collections.

6. Permanent Objects

Permanent objects are those from which you can obtain objects in exchange for energy. These objects cannot be sold and you can take them to their maximum level. The higher its level, the better objects you will obtain from it. Keep in mind that of the objects that you can get from inside in exchange for energy, you will not be able to select them since it will give you a random object. Permanent items have a cooldown time that depends on the item.

As much as you have energy, you will not be able to remove objects infinitely. When the inside is finished, a clock will appear indicating how long you must wait until you can get objects again. There are times when you will be lucky and it will give you some higher-level item. Here are some permanent items that you will find in the first levels: Beach Bucket: This is the first permanent item that you get in the game. It is formed from buckets and you can take it to the maximum level, which is 9. From here you can obtain pebbles, stones, sandcastles and seashells, among others. When it is at its maximum level you will be able to obtain the mysterious letter from here but to be honest it will not be easy to obtain one.

With the objects that come out of the bucket, you can complete the Shells and the Sand Castles book collection. Picnic Basket: This basket, like the bucket, is one of the first permanent items that you obtain and that requires energy to deliver objects.

From here you can obtain spoons, olives among others. And you will be able to complete the Picnic Food series and the Cutlery Tools series. Jewellery display: When you take the jewellery display to level 4 you will have a jewellery box. It is a permanent item which means that it will remain on the board forever, not only will you be able to create beautiful jewels with what is inside it but it also has a particularity.

It is that this jewellery box does not use energy to generate objects! Which means that you will have endless items? Well, yes and no, because if it has a cooldown time. You can place the jewellery box in the middle of the board and you can see how the objects jump out.

In case you have a full workspace, I recommend that you keep the jewellery box surrounded by items. This way, neither of the will pop from inside, occupying the place you need on the board.

Once they stop coming out, you will have to wait for the recharge time to expire. If you need to make a jewel and you don’t want to wait for the recharge time, you can also use diamonds to skip the time. A trick for when they give you a reward jewellery box and you have one on the board: first you empty the one you have on the board until the clock mark appears indicating that you have to wait.

Next step, you lower the new jewel box to the board and empty it too. Once the 2 are with the cooldown clock, you merge them. This will not only give you a higher tier jewel box but also resets the time so you can empty it for the third time. 

7. Reward Items

Crates: Crates have 5 levels. Inside the crates, you can get smileys or  diamonds. When you get one, either for a level-up reward or for having completed a level. You can open it or you can also save it and wait till get one of the same level to be able to merge them.

Whichever option you choose, when you want to open it you have to select them and choose the option to open there will tell you how long you have to wait. The higher the level of the crate, the greater the rewards, but also the longer it will take to open.

Energy crate: The crates contain only energy inside so nothing that comes out of it can surprise you. They are usually achieved by levelling up or completing an order. These crates cannot be levelled up as they are at their maximum level when they appear. Toolbox: Toolboxes are boxes full of tools where you can find everything from screws and wood to cement and bricks for construction. They are crucial for building upgrades. Not only that, but they are quite difficult to get, usually given to you as a reward for hard-to-complete orders.

So I recommend that you keep everything that comes out of the toolbox well until you can get the maximum level of each item. So when you manage to build, for example, a brick wall or a concrete mixer, it will be kept in the inventory until you use it in some upgrade.

These tool items will be saved in the second tab of the inventory. So you should not worry about them taking up space. You can go check what materials you have stored at any time.

8. Special Items Are Difficult To Get

Joker: The jokers are rarer items than diamonds. And they have the peculiarity of being able to duplicate any common object you have in the playground. If you’re lucky enough to get one, I don’t recommend using it to combine with a pebble.

Save it or use it to combine with an object that has a very high tier level. This way you will save a lot of time. You also have the option to buy it in the store in exchange for diamonds. So it would be a good purchase. Bubbled items: Bubbled items are items that appear inside a bubble when you are creating an object. These objects are trapped and you will not be able to use them unless you pay their reward in diamonds. Its price varies depending on the difficulty of the item. It may be that you are not interested in taking out of the bubble in exchange for some diamonds. But as soon as an item that you need appears, this may be worth spending diamonds on.

Be aware, you cannot doubt it for a long time since the bubble will disappear in a short time. Don’t worry if you decide not to pay with diamonds, the bubbles always leave you something in return, which can be a smiley, energy or even a diamond.

Mysterious letter: Just as its name says, this letter is mysterious, it is rumoured that it has a map inside and that it takes you to some hidden place in Travel Adventure, have you got it yet? Do not worry that as the levels progress they will come to your hands. As a suggestion, you should start by getting letters out of the bucket. Mysterious fossil: If there was something more mysterious than the mysterious letter, it is surely this fossil. It is much more difficult to get, but believe me, it has a very good reward.

9. Take Part In Special Events

Do not forget to complete the special events, they are a good opportunity to gather resources. Daily challenge: It is a daily event that will appear as an order on the top right and when you open it you will be able to see the tasks to complete. This order, unlike the others, has a time limit that you cannot exceed. You can see the time remaining from the order or when opening it as well.

You can also see the counter, for example, if it says 0/3, it means that you have 0 tasks performed out of 3. As you complete them, it will indicate 1/3, 2/3, and so on until it reaches 3/3. Completing it will give you the reward indicated in the order. Wildlife sanctuary: it is a special event to which you are going to be invited to travel to the jungle. Precisely to a sanctuary, where you can feed and rescue tigers, cut dry or fallen trees, and plant new and healthy ones.

During our stay in the sanctuary, you have to try to complete as many requests as possible. Here there are no smileys as a reward for orders. But in exchange for completing an order, they will give you a paw token.

As you collect the paws you will advance in level, each time you reach a new level you will need more tokens to complete it. Once the time of the stay finishes, they will give you a diploma with the maximum level you reached and with it the rewards. The levels that you can reach range from level 1 to 8.

In the sanctuary, you will have a different energy, which has the same functionality as in the rest of the game but it is blue. When you run out of energy, you can go out and wait for it to recharge or you can also buy it with diamonds.

You can also collect smileys that will appear from time to time when you mix some items, it may be that smileys appear and you can collect those, a tip to take advantage of here is that if you see that our time in the jungle is running out and they are going to be left items, the ideal is that you can sell them before leave. Because once the time is up you won’t be able to come back for anything from the place.

The mechanic is very similar to what you’ve been doing. Only that here your mission, apart from completing the orders, is to rescue the tigers that are in the jungle. To do this, the first thing you must do is get items from the worker’s hut in exchange for energy. From here you can get tools, seeds and feeding bottles.

How to rescue your first tiger? The tigers are lost in the middle of the jungle but to get to them you must first cut down the fallen trees. You do this by taking some items of tools to the maximum level until you get a chainsaw. With it, you can choose the place to weed. Note that there are two types of trees to cut, one is the dry one that you will have to cut 2 times, so you will need 2 chainsaws.

And the other one is the stump for which you’re going to have to cut only once. Both will give you lodges in return. Once you enter the jungle you will find items in grey covered by the undergrowth, to unlock it you must get a matching item. When you go into the jungle, you may find a baby tiger in grey and to rescue it you will need to have another one. To get one you have to take a feeding bottle to the maximum level, then you double-tap it and a baby tiger will appear.

Once you got the baby tiger now with it, you can rescue the one you found in the jungle.

How do you plant new and healthy trees? Once you were able to remove the dry trees, the idea of ​​the sanctuary is that you reforest it with healthy trees. To do this you must start by mixing the seeds until you bring them to their maximum level. When you manage to have a Sundari tree, it will provide you with seeds and flowers without having to spend energy in return.

As soon as you finish don’t forget to claim your reward.

10. Be Persistent And Be Patient

As you progress in the game, you can achieve more complex items. Or maybe you use up energy faster. But don’t get discouraged, you can close the game and come back when you have full energy. Some items will take a few days to form but in the meantime, you will always have some other easier items to deliver. And when you have a permanent item in cooldown, relax and do other things in Travel Town.

That was our last piece of advice, and with that we conclude our Travel Town beginner’s guide. Hopefully, the tips and tricks we shared in this article will help you to advance in the best way until you complete your collection of objects and restore the city. If you have discovered any other tips or tricks during your gameplay, we would be happy to hear from you! Feel free to drop us a line in the comments below!

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Perilous, Icy Mission Rescues Sick Worker in Antarctica

It took an icebreaker ship and two long-range helicopters to evacuate the staff member from an Australian research base to advanced medical care.

By Yan Zhuang

Reporting from Sydney

When a staff member fell ill at Australia’s Antarctic research station and couldn’t be treated locally, the team tasked with rescuing them faced a daunting endeavor rife with obstacles.

For one, the Australian Antarctic program had never attempted a rescue mission so close to winter, when temperatures on the continent can fall to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit and blizzards can rage for days.

Sending a plane to rescue the staff member was out of the question: It would have taken several weeks to clear and prepare Australia’s only runway in Antarctica, which operates only in summer and is situated atop a glacier that shifts a couple of yards every year, so it needs to be regularly realigned.

Instead, the rescuers devised a daring plan involving an icebreaker ship and two helicopters that required them to brave treacherous ocean conditions and carve through miles of ice sheet.

On Sunday, 10 days after the RSV Nuyina set off from Tasmania, the staff member was successfully rescued, the Australian Antarctic Division said in a statement on Monday.

The icebreaker was able to reach a glacial location from which the two helicopters could be launched, about 90 miles from Australia’s Casey Station, said Robb Clifton, the Australian Antarctic Division’s acting general manager of operations and logistics.

“Then, a window in the weather presented itself — a very nice blue-sky day for Antarctica in the first few days of spring — and the ship was able to launch two helicopters with a medical retrieval team,” he said.

After flying for nearly an hour, the helicopters reached the base, retrieved the staff member and returned to the ship, according to the statement.

Three doctors on board are treating the patient, who had a “developing medical condition and needs specialist assessment and care in Australia” the statement said. The Australian Antarctic Division did not provide any further details about the staff member or their ailment, citing privacy concerns.

The mission was “very complex,” Mr. Clifton said. “It’s the earliest we’ve ever gone to the Antarctic station — just a day or two after the official end of winter. It’s still very much winter in Antarctica.”

The rescue operation was only made possible, he said, because of the ship’s ice-breaking and helicopter-carrying capabilities, and the helicopters’ flying ranges.

He added that the Australian team had spoken to several international partners about helping with the mission, and had asked the American Antarctica team about the location of their icebreaker, but was ultimately able to accomplish the rescue mission solely with Australian resources.

The Casey base, located on the northern side of the Bailey Peninsula on the Budd Coast, is one of Australia’s three Antarctic stations. It has a staff of over a hundred in summer, but only a skeleton crew of 15 to 20 in winter.

Yan Zhuang is a reporter in The New York Times's Australia bureau, based in Melbourne. More about Yan Zhuang

Icebreaker, 2 helicopters used in perilous Antarctic rescue mission

A ustralian rescuers have successfully evacuated a researcher who fell seriously ill at a remote Antarctic outpost, but it required a unique and daring evacuation mission. The man in question had an undisclosed "developing medical condition" and the mission required an emergency medical rescue team, a huge icebreaker ship and two helicopters to retrieve the man from extremely isolated territory on the icy continent, according to CBS News' partner network, BBC News. 

The Australian Antarctic Division, the government agency that led the rescue operation, said the man had been successfully retrieved and flown onto its icebreaker RSV Nuyina — a special-purpose boat designed to navigate through ice-covered waters. The man was in transit Monday to the southern Australian island state of Tasmania for specialist care. 

"Getting this expeditioner back to Tasmania for the specialist medical care required is our priority," Robb Clifton, the operations manager for the Australian Antarctic Division, said in a statement Monday, according to Australian media. 

The man in question had been working at the Casey research station, one of three permanent research outposts in  Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division. Casey is the nearest permanent Antarctic station to Australia's mainland.

Medical facilities are limited at the research station, and only around 20 people live there during the southern hemisphere's winter, according to the BBC. 

The Australian government requires all researchers to undergo strict medical examinations before being deployed to the frozen, windswept continent due to the hostile environment they face there. 

As  CBS News has previously reported , rescue missions in Antarctica often face perilous conditions, presenting huge logistical challenges for evacuation teams. 

For the first time, Kenn Borek Air reveals details of Antarctic rescue

Crew members faced concerns of aircraft icing, frigid temperatures that dipped down to -60 C, and unpredictable snowy conditions when they undertook a risky medical rescue mission in Antarctica.

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Three crew members faced concerns of aircraft icing, frigid temperatures that dipped down to -60 C, and unpredictable, snowy conditions when they undertook a risky medical rescue mission in Antarctica.

Speaking for the first time since their return to Calgary, members of the Kenn Borek Air crew described their perilous journey to the South Pole to rescue two sick workers from the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

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“It’s almost cut and dry in Antarctica. We can’t just depart like you can on a regular flight, we need good weather,” pilot Wally Dobchuk told reporters at the Kenn Borek Air hangar in northeast Calgary on Tuesday.

“It seems like Antarctica is either a blizzard or it’s nice. There’s no in between.”

Kenn Borek Air was approached June 9 with a request to evacuate a seasonal Lockheed Martin employee from the research station. They later learned they would be flying two patients out of the station.

The following day, an “extensive risk analysis” was conducted to determine the feasibility of the mission, said John Harmer, president of the Calgary-based company, which has travelled from the North Pole to the South Pole and everywhere in between, and has operated aircraft in Antarctica for more than 30 years.

“Although this mission was at a more difficult time of year than the previous ones, we determined it was possible,” he said. “And together with NSF and their supporting agencies, we developed a plan to do the mission.”

On June 14, the six-member team left Calgary in a pair of Twin Otter planes.

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Dobchuk, with co-pilot Sebastien Trudel and aircraft maintenance engineer Mike McCrae, flew to the South Pole station to retrieve the two patients.

Meanwhile, a second support plane carrying pilot Jim Haffey, co-pilot Lindsay Owen and aircraft maintenance engineer Gerald Cirtwill remained at the Rothera research base on the Antarctic Peninsula to receive the evacuees.

The crew members spoke of missed weather windows, frigid temperatures and working in darkness.

“All we had was the moonlight reflecting in the snow,” Trudel recalled. “It’s similar to when we get there in October temperature-wise. It’s the darkness that makes all the work harder, for sure.”

Icing was also a big concern for the crew.

“We take off at a heavier weight . . . with the extra fuel we carry on board. And at that weight, the plane does not like to be flown in any kind of icing conditions,” Dobchuk said, adding the team took pains to keep the aircraft as clean as possible.

However, he said jokingly that the biggest fear on a mission like this was “running out of spicy Thai soup, which we did.”

It wasn’t all tense moments on the mission. Dobchuk, Trudel and McCrae recalled passing the time by singing the only two verses they knew of The Lion Sleeps Tonight, which Dobchuk described as “pretty good a cappella.”

Haffey said he felt like he was on a “relay team” as his members worked to configure the aircraft from skis to wheels before the patients arrived in Rothera to be flown out of the region.

When he saw the pair, they were ambulatory and seemed “happy and alert and actually kind of excited to get going.”

“It was a very positive moment,” he added.

Nearly 39,000 kilometres later, the team returned to Calgary on Thursday, and most members already have plans for future assignments. The plane that flew to the South Pole is currently being reconfigured for a job on Baffin Island later this month. 

The team brushed off any accolades or description of their actions as heroic, saying the mission was like any other they would fly as part of their job.

“There were more than just the six of us. There were lots and lots of people involved internationally,” Trudel said. “It was a big accomplishment for the whole company and for whoever was involved.”

The Amundsen-Scott station has a doctor and physician’s assistant, and is connected to doctors in the U.S. for consults. But the National Science Foundation reached out to Kenn Borek Air for the mission because one staffer needed medical care that couldn’t be provided there.

There have been three previous emergency evacuations from the station since 1999.

In the 1999 mission, the station’s doctor, Jerri Nielsen, who had breast cancer and had been treating herself, was flown out during the Antarctic spring with slightly better conditions.

Rescues were also conducted in 2001 and 2003, both for gallbladder problems.

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• Part VII (Halong Bay…and A Monk)
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• Part X (The Egg)
• Part XI (Happy Pizza)
• Part XII (The Killing Fields)
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         – Avalon Myanmar – Myanmar River Cruise – April 2017

• Avalon Waterways Myanmar – Part I (March 2017
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• Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part III (Yangon – Day 2)
• Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part IV (Bhamo to Katha)

Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part V (Katha to Tigyang)

Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part VI (Kya Hnyat to Kyauk Myaung)

• Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part VII (Mingun to Mandalay)
• Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part VIII (Sagaing to Bagan)

Avalon Waterways – Myanmar – Part IX (The Ship: Avalon Myanmar)

Avalon Waterways – Myanmar (Burma) – Reflections: “Isn’t This Amazing!?”

   *Azamara Club Cruises – Azamara Journey – Singapore to Dubai (April 8, 2018)

• Azamara Club Cruises – Azamara Journey – April 8, 2018 (Singapore to Dubai) – Revisiting the (Upgraded) Experience
• Azamara Journey Asian Adventure – Part I (Getting There and Getting Set)
• Azamara Journey Asian Adventure – Part II (Initial Impressions and Myanmar)
• Azamara Journey Asian Adventure – Part III (“Cruise Global, Go Local” in Sri Lanka)
• Azamara Journey Asian Adventure – Part IV (The Culinary Experience)
• Azamara Journey Asian Adventure – Part V (Cochin, Goa & Mumbai, India)
• Azamara Journey Asian Adventure – Part VI – Reflections (Azamara Journey vs. Regent Seven Seas Voyager)

* Azamara Quest – Southeast Asia and Japan (February 2015)

•  Azamara Club Cruises in Asia – Is it Amazing? Part I
• Azamara Club Cruises in Asia – Is it Amazing? Part II
• Azamara Club Cruises in Asia – Is it Amazing? Part III (Bali and Komodo Island) 
• Azamara Club Cruises in Asia – Is it Amazing? Part IV (Upscale Meets ????)
• Azamara Club Cruises in Asia – Is it Amazing? Part V (Manila, Philippines – By Day and AzAmazing Evening) 
• Azamara Club Cruises in Asia – Is it Amazing? Part V (Perspectives on Experiencing Developing Ports)
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• Celebrity Xperience – The Galapagos- Part I
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– How Close to Luxury Can Celebrity’s Smallest Ship Get? – Part I – How Close to Luxury Can Celebrity’s Smallest Ship Get? Part II – How Close to Luxury Can Celebrity’s Smallest Ship Get? Part III – How Close to Luxury Can Celebrity’s Smallest Ship Get? Part IV – How Close to Luxury Can Celebrity’s Smallest Ship Get? – Some Final Observations and Thoughts

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– How Upscale to Luxury is a Celebrity Cruise Experience? – Part I – How Upscale to Luxury is a Celebrity Cruise Experience? – Part II – How Upscale to Luxury is a Celebrity Cruise Experience? The Review – Part III

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• Silversea Silver Shadow Alaska Cruise Review – Part I
• Silversea Silver Shadow Alaska Cruise Review – Part II
• Silversea Silver Shadow Alaska Cruise Review – Part III
• Silversea Silver Shadow Alaska Cruise Review – Part IV
• Silversea Silver Shadow Alaska Cruise Review – Part V
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The final leg of my third Antarctica and Patagonia journey on the Seabourn Quest started with a “Drake Lake” crossing arriving into Ushuaia, Argentina on time. But it was Sunday with a 1:00 PM departure so there was virtually nothing open and no opportunity to enjoy a bit of Argentinian cuisine before our journey into the Chilean fjords and Patagonia.

We tied up to the pier along with Ponant’s L’Austral, the Hanseatic Nature and the old Albatross Expeditions Ocean Atlantic.  The luggage on the pier for each of these ships reminded me that coming all this way for a much shorter experience, and with not near the luxury, is not what I preferred…and that I still had over a week more to enjoy the Seabourn Quest!

As I wondered the town, I came upon the Dublin Pub, where I had a very “enjoyable” evening two years ago with some of the crew and Expedition Team.  I saw a sign that said “Open”, so I approached closer. I saw a chalk sign that said “Open” so I got right up to the locked front door. Alas, the 17:00 opening time in the ghost of chalk past hardly showed…and my excitement for a bit of luck turned to disappointment.  Oh well.

It was quickly time to get back onboard and for our cruise; not expedition, to continue.

Monday brought us to Punta Arenas, Chile and my time to host the Ensemble Experience which I called, “Shearing Sheep and then Eating Them”!  Well, actually it was a walking and driving tour of the city and then a drive to a small show estanzia (or farm) where we had a bit of a walk followed by a sheep shearing demonstration, a tasty llama empanada and a pisco sour, and then a barbecue of lamb (get it?), beef and chicken.

Making it more interesting was not only a great guide, but two of the Seabourn Expedition Team came with us.

After lunch some of the guests returned to the ship, but some of us headed into town and another pisco sour at the famous Shackleton’s Bar.  As we walked another member of the Expedition Team joined us. And immediately after I posted on Facebook that I was there, Trevor Potts – who recreated Shackleton’s Journey messaged me and then stopped in, then Rob Egelstaff stopped in and then another member of the Seabourn Expedition Team came by.  Of course we enjoyed pisco sours!

While some went off to shop and others to take the shuttle back to the ship, Rob and I enjoyed (as we did last year) a nice four mile walk along the coast back to the ship.  As luck would have it, just as we arrived the skies opened. Whew!

It was then two sea days or, better, days both wondering through the fjords and inlets of Patagonia coupled with some hours in open ocean.  Because the seas were predicted to be quite rough (false alarm fortunately) Captain Joost took a very creative and beautiful meander that had not been done before. Hopefully Seabourn will do this in the future as well.  It was far more picturesque and enjoyable than open ocean.

Our day in Castro, Chile was, as it was again my third time there, focused on one place: Mercadito; a small rustic restaurant which has the best frozen pisco sours, fresh oysters that are almost clam like, and other deliciousness like a seafood soup.

It was also time for me to give the Seabourn Expedition Team a bit of a Thank You…which allegedly caused the restaurant to run out of pisco.  That’s their story anyway!

After finding another little restaurant for that last pisco sour that nobody actually needed, it was time to catch the last tender back to the Seabourn Quest…and none too soon.  What a fun day!

And while it was a great day, our final port of call was only a few hours later: Puerto Montt, Chile.  Here is where I was scheduled to meet up with my friend and guide, Maria, owner of  Patagonia Trails .  Maria invited me to visit her new homestead with views of the Osorno Volcano and which, after hiking through gorgeous fields of wheat, backs onto a national forest…and then a hazelnut orchard. It was worth getting up at 6:00 AM to make the first tender to shore. (OK, I made the second tender, but let’s not quibble about that. It was a strong showing after Pisco Day. LOL).

This was a most unexpected, but beautiful and refreshing hike…and much needed after so much time on the Seabourn Quest.

After the hike, tired and muddy, but very happy, Maria dropped me off that the old market so I could take a quick look around before heading back to the ship. I wish I had some Chilean pesos so I could again sample some of the seafood, but I think I was too tired to find an ATM and, of course, the Seabourn Quest was departing shortly and I only had an hour to wander and catch the last tender.

It was then back on the ship in time for my second Hamburger & Hot Dog Test.  Consistency is important, right??  Once again I found that you need to “order down” one temperature to get what you want. So if you want a medium rare burger, you should order rare. After a few cruises I find this definitely works.

It was then time for the Seabourn Classic Caviar Sailaway (postponed from earlier in the cruise). It is something many of the guests enjoy, but for me I don’t get why one wants to wait in line to be served caviar when you get have it on request anywhere you want on the ship at any time.

Speaking of which, that night was the last formal night, but after the last hosted table I sat at had some “difficult” tablemates and I had just relaxed after my wonderful hike, I gave it a miss.  I did wander about in a jacket and slacks, as is appropriate, and did have some caviar and potato chips at the Observation Lounge…having my own quiet Seabourn Caviar sailaway!

And then it was the last day; a sea day.

It was also time to pack up after 24 days on the Seabourn Quest and almost the end of this phenomenal adventure.  One last dinner; a wonderful evening with Hotel Director Ares and Expedition Leader Srigley and then an after dinner cocktail with some of the Expedition Team.

The next morning it was time to disembark, saying so many “goodbyes” and “No, I can’t stay on for the next cruise too”, I also said a number of “hellos” to staff and Expedition Team members I passed leaving the terminal that were just arriving to embark on the Seabourn Quest that morning.

And then… I had arranged a Bird Watching Tour with lunch for myself and four of my clients through the  usually  very reliable Tours By Locals.  Our guide met me and the first words out of his mouth (after Hello) was that there has been a very long drought in the area we were going so there won’t be many birds. Huh? Seriously? Now is when you decided to tell me this?  How about you don’t offer a bird watching tour without birds? What an innovative concept.

The good news is that he showed up and the van was new, clean and appropriate to handle all of us and our luggage.  It was then a pleasant hour’s drive to El Yali National Park; which neither our guide nor our driver exactly knew where it was or, once there, where the park office was.

When he said he had been there about five months ago I knew things weren’t going to get better, but kept a smile and a scintilla of hope.   When we slogged through volcanic sand and he ignored the few songbirds we had seen along the way, that little hope was dwindling.

We eventually found ourselves on the beach; not exactly a hot bed for birdwatching, so after a stroll down the beach our guide had an alleged shortcut. After wandering back and forth along a barbwire fence separating horse paddocks there was only one thing to do: Crawl under the barbwire. Yep! You got it! An expensive birdwatching tour without birds got worse.

And when we got to the “wetlands”, which was actually a tidal pool (at low tide), there were but a few birds in the distance with our guide not making much of any effort to identify them either.

It was then time to call it “quits” so it was over to an old path in a horse paddock to another locked gate and, again, crawling under yet more barbwire.

It was the, fortunately, time for lunch…and as disappointing as the birdwatching ordeal was, the lunch was equally…BETTER!

We stopped at a small restaurant,  Parador Turistico El Yali  on our way into the park and was given a choice of beef soup, chicken breast or fish.  Upon our return we had an amazing lunch.  As you may know I am a huge fan of soup and what appeared was a giant bowl of beef soup deliciousness!

The chef and owner was very proud to tell us – with our guide interpreting at points – about how he made the beef soup, which was filled with local potato, corn, rice, carrots and more along with a giant bone-in portion of super-tender beef.  He then went to show me photographs of him with, apparently, famous Chilean people who he has cooked for. (My Spanish, especially with his dialect, just couldn’t keep up at all!)

He then took us for a short tour of his small farm (and this meal was truly “farm to table”; actually more like just “farm”). He had a little bit of everything: Chickens (eggs and meat), peaches, apples, melons, herbs, etc. And you would have never known this if you didn’t take the time to look.

Truly enjoyable and a moment of refreshing simple life.

It was then a two hour ride to the airport…and my turn to deal with LATAM. Ugh.

Fortunately, my bid for an upgrade to Premium Economy was accepted ($130), which as I figured it was only $30 more than what it would have cost me to check my luggage. A definite win!

After being told by LATAM they could not check my luggage through to Tahoe, I called over a supervisor and it was done and with no charge for anything. A win!

And the aircraft did not, as my arriving flight did, have ashtrays in the armrests, but rather it was a 787. Another definite win!

The only downside was that LATAM changed the departure time to two hours earlier so I had a 6.5 hour layover in Lima, Peru before boarding my United flight to Houston.  Juggling my Star Alliance Gold status for entrance into one lounge and my Priority Pass through American Express Platinum for another I was able to spend all of my time in two lounges (conveniently next to each other), including grabbing a bed for a couple of hours of sleep and a truly needed shower (remembering the birdwatching fiasco).

When I finally got home, after 30+ hours of travel, I received a Facebook message from someone on the Seabourn Quest, “ Eric Goldring come baaaaaaaaack “.

Oh, I intend to. Antarctica does that to you.

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