2023 – Asia

We each emerge from our Hanok (traditional Korean house) into the bright sunshine and blue sky. The air is cool and crisp. It’s 38 degrees now, but

My brain has trouble dealing with the seeming paradox of being two time zones closer to the “west coast” (e.g. San Francisco, and such) and

In theory today should be easy. We’re just trying to get from our Hanoi hotel to our Seoul hotel. There, at 6, we’re to meet the rest of the

Today dawns bright but still very cloudy. It seems we may not get any blue skies while in Lan Ha Bay. We have a quick cup of coffee and head

After the excitement of yesterday, we are a bit tentative about eating, or really doing anything this morning. I feel better, but not totally

In Bali they talk about having Bali Belly. In Thailand tourists strive to avoid the dreaded Thailand Tummy. In Cambodia you definitely don’t want

We have our normal wake, coffee, and breakfast, but is also packing. We’ve been aboard The Lotus Navigator for seven nights, so our stuff is

Today is the first of the month, so we again say “Rabbit, Rabbit” first thing, for good luck. Per the calendars (that we’re seeing in the

Until now, when we’ve wanted to go ashore, we walked some gangplank and we were there. Not so here in Vietnam. We’ll be using Sampans. The

On many ships one occasionally gets an ‘At sea day’, when you have zero ports of call. Today, for us, will be an ‘At sea’ day, but we’re on