Punta Arenas, Chile — At the Ends of the Earth
A quirk of fate has us standing at the harbor in Punta Arenas, Chile, at midnight on New Year’s Eve. As fireworks explode over the Straits of Magellan, we welcome it in together with thousands of townspeople of all ages, bopping to the foot-tapping music of a Chilean rock group … at the ends of the earth! The largest southern-most city of South America, Punta Arenas (named Sandy Point in the 17th century by its founder, the Englishman, J. Byron)…