It’s now the beginning of May, so I thought I’d catch up with a quick post. Along with the rest of the world, we’ve been staying at home this month, on coronavirus lockdown. Not much has really changed since the…
Sailing the Chobe River on the Zambezi Queen
By the second day of our cruise, we knew all of our fellow passengers on our AMA Waterways tour/cruise by name, as we had started as a group in Cape Town for 3 nights. With only 14 cabins, the Zambezi…
Riedel me this?
No, this is not a riddle from one of my favorite childhood movies, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory. In the movie the Oompas sing a similar song with a riddle throughout the movie when one of the kids misbehaves. …
Valentine’s Day on Celebrity Constellation in Penthouse 6147
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! No, I wish I were back on the Constellation today, but this post is a memory of our Valentine’s from 3 years ago. I logged onto Facebook this morning and saw I had memories of…
Blast from the past – the Westin and Coco Palms Kauai revisted!
This morning we were scheduled to take a 10am helicopter tour over Kauai. We left our hotel, the Grand Hyatt Poipu, at 8:30am to meet our arranged pre-board/checkin time of 9:15am. As it turned out, traffic was light and we…
Aloha bound – Flight to Honolulu
I’m trying to catch up on my blog, and what better time than a maintenance delay while we’re on American Airlines flight 5 from DFW to Honolulu. We are actually going on to Kauai, but flying via Honolulu, and connecting…
Sailing Halong Bay
It’s 11:30pm and I just finished a short video on Halong Bay, which I uploaded to You Tube. Hopefully the You Tube police won’t flag it for content like they did my Bangkok video as I used a song I…
AMA Dara day two
On our first morning aboard the AMA Dara, we had a nice buffet breakfast in the restaurant. Like the hotels we have been staying in, the food was plentiful with many Viennese and American-type food. We then did our first…
Journey to Lainai
Today (Wednesday) was another semi-early morning for us, as we had an hour drive to Lahaina for a 9:15am meet up of our Trilogy catamaran tour to Lanai. We skipped breakfast this morning, but had picked up a trio of…
Afternoon Maui driving adventure
After the magnificent Maui helicopter ride with Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, (last post) we had a quick lunch and took a scenic; i.e. rustic drive thru Maui’s natural wonders, that are not the typical tourist type places to stop. As we…