Happy New Year from the beautiful Hyatt Cypress Creek Resort in Orlando! Like last year we stayed here for a 3 night ‘stay-cation’ and also had a wonderful time, despite the chilly weather this December and misty New Year’s Day.…
Touring Beijing Day 1 – Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace and Olympic Stadium
Ni Hao! (Nee how) from Beijing! We started our first day of touring Beijing at 9am, after having breakfast in the 17th floor Concierge Lounge (Grand Club) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. We are staying on the 18th (top)…
Time out for Hurricane Irma!
It’s Wednesday night as I write this, and Steve (DOS) and I are safely back in Florida after a wonderful Labor Day weekend in Mendoza, Argentina. We were on the go quite a bit touring and dining while we were…
Back to the future; wish I were still in the past!
A quick break from posting about our South Africa trip, to say we’re safely back home now. I’m still going to continue with my posts after this, but as they take several hours to write and post photos, it will…
Election week in the Steel City
Finally after a grueling year and a half of endless ads, news spin, debates, mud-slinging, and Saturday Night Live skits, I watched the election unfold and ultimately decided from a suburb of Pittsburgh where I was working this week. And…
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…
Fall in Philly and flight delay. But bonus Halloween pics!
This week I am working in the Philadelphia suburbs on business. It’s Wednesday night and I’m catching up on some emails before I fly home to Orlando in the morning. This has been a good and quick week for a…
Packing up and heading home from Chile
On our last day in Chile, we requested (and got) a 4pm late checkout at the Grand Hyatt Santiago, Chile, courtesy of my Hyatt Diamond status – quite a nice perk. Our flight back to Miami was not until 8:45pm,…
From the Quarry to the beach: Our Easter Island tour continues . . .
Our Easter Island tour continues with our next stop at the Quarry on Easter Island. In the last post, we visited Tonjariki, which is the most spectacular and famous of Easter Island’s ruins. I also noted earlier that 70% of…
Touring Tonjariki on Easter Island!
Ok, so we’re up by 8am this our second morning on Easter Island and hurry down to have our first breakfast here at the Hangaroa Eco Village Resort, before taking our 9:30am tour. The breakfast buffet was very good, with…