Growing up in elementary school in Virginia in the late 1960s, in the innocence of my youth, I didn’t realize it then, but we were going through a world changing time in history; the Apollo Mission to the Moon, the…
Disney Seas Tokyo for Seniors via a Day Trip!
Steve (DOS) and I have been staying in the Hyatt Regency Tokyo for a few days, which is located in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. We are going on a cruise in a few days, and have limited time to…
Touring the Sites of Tokyo!
Well on my last quick post I said I wouldn’t have much time to post today due to our tour of Tokyo. Well I guess I jinxed myself by saying that, as our scheduled 10am tour by Viator was a…
Sailing the Yangtze River on the Yangzi Explorer
Back to our China trip again, after the last ‘catch up’ post to let friends and family know we were home once again. This post is about the luxury River Cruise we sailed ‘up’ (as in upstream) on The Yangzi…
Welcome Aboard the Yangtze Explorer!
After a comfortable night’s rest at the Crowne Plaza Yichang, Steve (DOS) and I had breakfast in the hotel’s lobby restaurant. Unlike last night when we had looked at the dinner buffet and left, the breakfast buffet was fresh and…
Shanghai to Yichang by Train
After five days in Shanghai, we checked out of the Grand Hyatt, and took a 8am taxi to the train station for our next part of the trip, which is a four night cruise up the Yangtze river. After…
Day Trip to Suzhou
Our day trip to Souju started at 8:45am when our guide Annie, of Sunny’s Tours met us at our hotel, the Grand Hyatt Shanghai. Unlike the previous two days of touring with Lily and a driver, today we would use…
Touring the BUND area and Evening cruise in Shanghai
Note: We are in Hong Kong now and I’m writing this up with limited photos due to upload speeds. I am posting most of the photos as a gallery at the end of the post. On this our third day…
EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival and Disney Springs Weekend
Now that Spring is in the air, that means it’s time for the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival. We had some friends visiting from out of town, so we stayed at the Hilton Lake Buena Vista Palace on Saturday night…
Happy Chinese New Year!
Yes, we celebrated the 2018 Chinese New Year in style in Singapore! In my last post I wrote about our day 1 private tour with Su Ling of Hello Singapore Tours, and now I’m continuing this post on Day…