Welcome to beautiful Bimini, Bahamas! Bimini is the “private island” Virgin Voyages uses for the exclusive use of its sailors (Virgin’s lingo for fellow passengers) when the cruise ship is in port there. While technically not a private island as…
Virgin Voyages: Day 2 Welcome to Key West!
On the second day of our four night Virgin Voyages cruise aboard the Scarlet Lady, I woke up around 9:30am, and heard . . .nothing! Absolutely nothing but quiet silence! We had already docked in Key West earlier in the…
A visit to K.Y.P. village in Soweto Johannesburg
After breakfast in our hotel, we met our group at the entrance gate to our Fairlawn’s Hotel for our day touring around Johannesburg. The day would be broken up into two halves; with the morning tour visiting Soweto and an…
Waimea Canyon by Land
Waimea Canyon is ‘The Grand Canyon’ of Hawaii, located on the island of Kauai. We explored Waimea Canyon both by land and by helicopter, on two different days. I’ll start with our road trip, as we did this first. We…
Bangkok revisited . . .
It’s Sunday afternoon, and no, we’re not in Bangkok, but relaxing at home here in Orlando. I just finished packing for my work trip to Philadelphia tomorrow morning, and have some free time this afternoon to relax a bit, and…
Weekend home from New Jersey
It’s Saturday, and I’m catching up around home from the work week in New Jersey. I was in Morristown, New Jersey this week for work. My typical Monday thru Friday work week started with a flight to Newark on Monday…