Our wonderful guide ‘Hung’ got us up and out early to get moving to the Halong Bay boat cruise. The immediate area around downtown Halong Bay where our hotel was located is not notable; there […]

Our wonderful guide ‘Hung’ got us up and out early to get moving to the Halong Bay boat cruise. The immediate area around downtown Halong Bay where our hotel was located is not notable; there […]

The four of us left the ship at 0415 to catch a flight to Hanoi, about 1:40 flight time north of Saigon. The destination of our 3-day trip would be Halong Bay, one of the […]

After the previous night’s combined cultural/logistical pre-port, I found myself wondering what it would be like to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, a network of tunnels the Viet Cong used in ‘The American War’ (as […]

Today Heidi took the boys downtown while I walked to an old cemetery that we’d previously driven by, and having become immediately transfixed by its ethereal allure, I knew I had to go. The graves […]

Since Heidi was here back in 1988, she figured it would be a good place to take call, especially since it’s relatively easy to get around, since the port is essentially right downtown. Dr. Phil […]

We awoke in some weird time warp, having gained 2.5 hours on the clock in the previous 3 days’ voyage. Normally when traveling eastbound we only gain an hour every two days at most, but […]

Our last day in India, and the boys are a’hankering to do some shopping, so first thing in the AM we headed out via auto-rickshaw to Spencer Mall, a huge, multi-level, American-style mall with everything […]

So Jeff, you’re in one of the ‘classically’ impoverished countries on the other side of the earth, and we haven’t heard a single word about the ‘starving kids in India’, people begging on the streets, […]

Mahdu and I got out first thing in the morning to pick up Heidi at the port, and returned to a lavish South Indian breakfast, including the best (red) curried shrimp I’ve ever had in […]