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…
Dinner at Sir Winston’s – Queen Mary Hotel
This is a continuation blog of our July 4th weekend aboard the Queen Mary Hotel, in Long Beach California. After walking for miles (literally!) aboard the ship, we took a late afternoon nap before heading to Sir Winston’s restaurant at…