As if there weren’t enough excitement around the ship already with everyone preparing to disembark, unfortunately one passenger got an early ride to Key West, Florida via a Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Airstation […]

Guess what? As of yesterday we are in the Mountain Time Zone, despite being in the Pacific Ocean! Midday yesterday the MV Explorer passed due south of our home in Golden, but we forgot to […]

Less than an hour ago at 09:55 hours local (not a named time zone, there’s nothing out here!), the MV Explorer crossed the Antimeridian, exactly 180 degrees longitude from the Prime Meridian Church, in Tema, […]

One of my favorite pictures of them, ever!

After being out late again the previous night, I decided to forego the morning ‘sunrise’ images in deference for sleeping a bit and getting packed, as we were to leave Guilin via the Li River […]

As my hotel-mate Alan is a die-hard excercise fanatic (much like Heidi), he awoke at 0530 to go hike some karst hills before our bus left at 0900 for Longsheng. Hoping to get some sunrise […]

 Wow! Here I am in Guilin, China with a dedicated wireless connection in my 5-star hotel room, ready to post Malaysia and start getting Vietnam up, and… Both blogger and Facebook are firewalled! Not even […]

We awoke to a fabulous blue-sky morning, and had breakfast out on the 6th Deck Garden Lounge, our last chance to say goodbye to the predominantly Filipino dining room crew who were going home for […]

As the MV Explorer approached Hong Kong, a spire of light pierced the rather thick, marine cloud layer above. It was hazy beneath the cloud layer, and row upon row of high-density residential structures lined […]