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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Today, we started flying back to Sydney, the last leg on our air cruise. It was going to be a long flying day, but we made a stop in Birdsville, a tiny town on the edge of the Simpson Desert, near the borders…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise After a short flight, we landed in Alice Springs — almost the geographic center of Australia. Of course, I was a bit shocked as we were making our approach to hear the pilot say, “and off on our right is the super secret…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Broome was as far west as we would go on this trip, so it was time to start winging our way back to the east, flying over the Gibson Desert towards the Red Center of Australia and Uluru, the world’s largest monolith. Looking…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise We arrived in Broome just before sunset, and I have to say that the sunsets over the Indian Ocean are pretty special. We were booked into the Cable Beach Club Resort that, not surprisingly, sits on Cable Beach, a gorgeous stretch of white…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Today we made a stop in Kununurra, just inside Western Australia, coming from the Northern Territory. There is an amazing story here in what seems to be an arid and desolate desert region. What made all the difference was irrigation from the Ord…
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