This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Today, we headed a couple of hours from Siem Reap to see something truly amazing – the floating village of Kompong Phluk (well, it would be floating during…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise We flew from Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap to spend a couple of days and then head down for a short stop in Phnom Penh before a tortuous 4-hour drive to Sihanoukville to meet the ship. In this post, I’ll talk a bit…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Well, I must say it feels a bit weird cruising up the Saigon River at daybreak. The last time I was here was in 1975 as part of Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of South Vietnam. The retreat to the South, with the North…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Well, we have reached our first port after leaving Hong Kong – Danang, Vietnam. Unfortunately, we are only spending one day here and we had to choose between staying to look around Danang or heading to the Imperial City of Hue (A UNESCO World Heritage…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Greetings all! We’ve spent 5 days in Hong Kong before leaving on our ship for the cruise. It has been a great way to acclimate to the time change and, in some respects, renew acquaintances with an “old friend” (Glen and friend, Ken, independently first…
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This is part of a series called Seabourn Half-World cruise Well, we are off on a major adventure! Deb and I are flying to Hong Kong on Monday, where we will stay a few days before picking up our ship, the Seabourn Quest, for a 55-day cruise. This is somewhat noteworthy in that we have…
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This is part of a series called Our Alpen Adventure Last Christmas Deb gave me an amazingly thoughtful gift — a weeklong carving school in Austria. In her research she found that in addition to wood and stone carving, they also did clay sculpting (apparently you always start with a clay model before you start…
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Sometimes you just have to get away — even from the beauty of Puerto Vallarta. But this time we were on a mission — shopping for our new house that is being built up on San Juan Island, but also for a few things for our condo in Puerto Vallarta. It’s only a 35 minute…
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When I was still working, I had an office in Santa Maria, CA — in the heart of the Central Coast California wine region. I used to time trips to arrive on Friday night for a Monday morning meeting, allowing Deb and I to spend weekends wine tasting around the region. We hadn’t been for…
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Given that we had purchased a car, and hadn’t put a lot of miles (oops, kilometers!) on it, we decided to visit another of Australia’s wine regions — the Hunter Valley. This is one of Australia’s oldest wine producing regions, getting its irrigation from the Hunter River which traverses this very long valley area (over…
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