We arrived in Seim Reap around noon. We checked into our hotel for a wonderful surprise. This trip is a celebration of our 40 years of wedded bliss. Our anniversary was in January, but apparently the hotel was going to help us celebrate. After checking in we were off in a tuk-tuk to a Buddhist …
Our visit to Saigon (most people here still refer to the city by its former name) began in the evening of the 15th with dinner in a small local restaurant just across the street from our hotel. We then got an early start the next morning, heading to the Cu Chi tunnel complex. The tunnels …
This post has a lot of pictures and some video. But this is only a small selection of all the pictures I have. Please let me know if this is too much or too little. I want to give you a flavor for the places, but not drive you crazy. An observation on travel: One …
We left Halong Bay flying out of Hanoi to Danang. We then drove to our hotel in a little Ancient town of Hoi An which is becoming a major resort area. Along the way, passing through Danang, our guide pointed out several sites related to the US presence during the war. He noted the US …
Our next adventure takes us to Halong Bay a bit north and east of Hanoi, about 2 hours drive. However, we flew there in a seaplane. Probably took just as long, considering getting to the airport etc. But we got a fabulous view of the bay in a circular fly over of the bay before …
We arrived in Vietnam on April 7th in the late afternoon. Too late to do much more than check in, relax a bit and then go to dinner. I cannot speak for all, but I suspect that those of a certain age and above have some inner voice or feeling about Vietnam. I was a …
Our next stop on our grand adventure is Hong Kong. What can one say about this amazing city? At once a mixture of old and new, east and west. A city of new gleaming glass and steel sky scrapers and ancient temples. A place with extreme wealth and poverty. Totally fascinating how these extremes come …
Well this is confusing. Woke up in Tahiti on April 1, arrived in New Zealand at 2:30 the “same” day but it was now April 2nd. Cathy and I argued about whether our trip just lost a day. I think the way you should count is “how many sleeps” (thank you Erin Lasser for the …
This should have been part of yesterday’s post, but I forgot, and Cathy insisted it is a story that should be told. One of the fun times on the ship was at 4:00pm each afternoon was tea time in the lounge. On days at sea the crew would host a trivia game. We did not …
March 28 At Sea We leave the Austral Island archipelago and head north about 400 miles to Bora Bora, our next destination. We anticipate arriving the morning of the 29th so we will have a day of relaxing at sea. I took the day to get a haircut in the morning. I must admit to …
