Travel & Life Vignettes
For reasons impenetrable, we decided to spend a week in Hong Kong on our way to Sri Lanka. We flew from Seattle to San Francisco, where we would board another United flight for the 15…
We left Seattle on a 7:15am direct flight to Cancun. That meant we were up much earlier than we like. Once off the ground, though, we got to see blue sky and sunbeams for the…
Our 23 days on the Queen Elizabeth is almost over, and not a minute too soon. The water, though technically not rough, kept the ship in noticeable motion once we entered the Tasman Sea, where…
Our last port of call before Melbourne was Port Vila, Vanuatu, on Efate Island. The island appeared in the distance on our morning approach. One thing that came to the fore in our visits to…
It’s a two day sail from Apia, Samoa, to Lautoka, Fiji. Two more days of ocean, sometimes almost glassy. Well, carnival glassy. As before, days began with breakfast in the Lido Restaurant, because it’s the…
Hawaii to Samoa. Five more days at sea on the Queen Elizabeth. Nuff said. Crossing the Pacific, the sea was much the same each day, and different. Though often beautiful. Two days out from Samoa,…
We booked a long voyage, 23 days, on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, crossing the Pacific from San Francisco to Melbourne. We’ll spend a couple of days in San Francisco first. Here we leave Seattle on the…
Our last stop in our four months of winter travel was Kuala Lumpur, followed by a short two nights in Taipei on our way home. Here we fly over the Sepang River, in Selangor, Malaysia,…
On our way to Penang, Malaysia, we flew Vietnam Airlines from Danang to Hanoi and then on to Kuala Lumpur. The food that Vietnam served us on our second flight gave both of us food…
Heading to Hoi An, we flew from Bangkok to Danang through Ho Chi Min City. The arrival and transfer from international to domestic on Vietnam Airlines was quick and efficient, give or take the walk…