Con Dao – March 2026

Con Dao is the name of a group of 16 islands off the southern coast of ...

We arrived in Ho Chi Min City on a Sunday for a short four-day stay. It ...

We left Danang as the sun was setting, on a short one-hour Vietnam Airlines flight to ...

We flew into Danang, Vietnam, on a direct flight from Kuala Lumpur, our final approach taking ...

The flight into Kuala Lumpur from Yogyakarta was a pleasantly short 2½ hours. The photographer snapped ...

On a Sunday morning, we took the Argo Dwipangga train from Gambir station in Jakarta to ...

We flew from a Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Jakarta on Singapore Airlines. We had to connect ...

We hired a car and driver for seven days and left Colombo for Southernmost Sri Lanka. ...

Our ride to Colombo, Sri Lanka, was on China Eastern Airlines. Leaving Hong Kong, we were ...

On one of our days in Hong Kong, we decided to take the Turbojet Ferry to ...

For reasons impenetrable, we decided to spend a week in Hong Kong on our way to ...

We left Seattle on a 7:15am direct flight to Cancun. That meant we were up much ...

Our 23 days on the Queen Elizabeth is almost over, and not a minute too soon. ...

Our last port of call before Melbourne was Port Vila, Vanuatu, on Efate Island. The island ...

It’s a two day sail from Apia, Samoa, to Lautoka, Fiji. Two more days of ocean, ...

Hawaii to Samoa. Five more days at sea on the Queen Elizabeth. Nuff said. Crossing the ...

We booked a long voyage, 23 days, on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, crossing the Pacific from San ...

Our last stop in our four months of winter travel was Kuala Lumpur, followed by a ...

On our way to Penang, Malaysia, we flew Vietnam Airlines from Danang to Hanoi and then ...

Heading to Hoi An, we flew from Bangkok to Danang through Ho Chi Min City. The ...

Our drive from Hua Hin to Bangkok was much like our drive there: an uneventful three ...

We arrived in Bangkok about 4:00am. It was a very long walk through the huge airport ...

Helsinki was a short stop for us, just in case we didn’t get cold enough in ...

Our flights from Washington DC to Stockholm, Sweden, started off poorly. Our first leg was on ...

The cold and fog of our early morning departure from Seattle reminded us why we tend ...

Halfway to Costa Rica, hanging out at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, waiting for our ...

Our approach to Kuala Lumpur took us over palm oil plantations that appeared to stretch to ...

We arrived in Kota Kinabalu late in the evening and woke the next morning to much ...

During our approach to Noi Bai International Airport, we could see Hanoi’s air was pretty much ...

We arrived in Luang Prabang, Laos, on a Lao Airlines ATR 72. The smallish French-Italian turboprop ...

We headed south from Hoi An for Quy Nhon by car. It’s a four to five ...

Several dishes are unique to the Hoi An region, and white rose dumplings is one of ...

Our Asiana flight from Seattle left an hour late, which seems to be SOP. But they ...

We flew out of Hanoi to Kochi for a one night layover on our way to ...

After our time on Halong Bay, we headed back to spend a few days in Hanoi. ...

We arrived in Hanoi after a short flight from Huế and a bumpy approach through intermittent ...

After our time in Hoi An, we hired a car and driver to get us to ...

We flew into Da Nang mid-morning, under tropical monsoon clouds. This picture looks down the Thu ...

The Kerala backwaters run for over 150 miles, north and south, inland along Malabar’s Arabian Sea ...

We arrived in Kochi after a three-hour flight from Delhi. The city lies on India’s tropical ...

I suppose we could have named this post New Delhi and Agra, since they are the ...

Warning: Long post ahead. On our way from Lisbon to India, we spent a week in ...

Late in June, we took a train to Porto for a few days. It had rained ...

Sintra Forty minutes by train from Lisbon is Sintra, a picturesque village and one-time royal retreat. ...

With Marrakech just an hour and a half flight from Lisbon, we took a long weekend ...

Lisbon is a city of hills, seven by legend but eight in fact. Over the years, ...

Our route from Buenos Aires took us out through São Paulo, Brazil, so we stayed a ...

Argentine cuisine is rooted in the country’s indigenous, Spanish, and Italian heritage, with a definite emphasis ...

Toward the end of April, we took a day trip by ferry to Colonia del Sacramento, ...

In the high desert, along the eastern slopes of the Andes, Mendoza has become one of ...

For our time in Buenos Aires – a little over a month – we rented a ...

We took a morning flight from Cape Town to Windhoek, the small capitol of Namibia, where ...

Table Top Mountain Table Top Mountain is, of course, the iconic backdrop to the city. At ...

The Festive Season in Cape Town, as it’s called in South Africa, is a remarkably quiet ...

Two nights in Joahannesburg. Just a tech-stop, really. We’d spent a couple of days here previously ...

Campo dei Fiori, Rome. Just outside the door of the first apartment at which we stayed, ...

Pompeiian streets, engineered for both wains and water, buried under 30 feet of ash and pyroclastic ...

Vesuvius, from our Sorrento hotel room balcony, with at its feet Herculaneum on the left and ...

Naples has gifted two things to the world: pizza and a canvas for graffiti. I’m not ...

Via della Conciliazione, the Way of Concilliation, leading to Piazza San Pietro and St. Peter’s Basillica. ...

The Colosseum, or Flavian Amphitheater. When I thought of Rome from half a world away, the ...

This long post is not even half of the things we spent our time enjoying in ...

Victoria from the deck of the Port Angeles ferry. The Empress, right on Victoria Harbor. Here ...

Crossing the Puget Sound aboard the Edmonds to Kingston ferry. White tail deer strolling along the ...

We love the Northwest in the fall, but we thought mid to late October was pushing ...

A staycation after leaving the workforce.  Picnic dinners and lunches on the beach and just doing ...

We flew from Bali to Sydney, once again going through Bangkok. Here we are leaving the ...

We flew Asiana from Honolulu to Inchon then Thai Airlines to Bangkok on the double-deck A380. ...

Michele visited Tokyo to tour the flagship hotel of Resorttrust, the Kahala Hotel’s new owner and ...

Our third and final safari destination was also in Botswana, near the Okavango Delta, some 200 ...

After an overnight layover in Johannesburg and a morning flight, we landed in Maun. It’s the ...

This is a brief post for the short day we spent in Nairobi, woven into our ...

Off to Africa. We packed duffels, since our bags would need to be squashed into small ...