2023 – Asia

After lunch, yesterday, we took a bus ride to the central market. This is a huge, octopus-shaped building with stalls everywhere. The program

Today there is no post, effectively. The main part of today’s program is a visit to one of the killing fields and the associated genocide

Today is our first full day on the ship and our first excursions. When we wake up we find we’re docked, but just to a grassy bank. There’s a

Today we change location and mode of transportation, all in one. We’ll end our day on a ship motoring down (up?) the Mekong River. We do our

Today, on our todo list, is nothing. It’s a ‘down day’, but we’re thinking it will lift us up. We try to plan these from time to time to recover

We wake at 4am. It’s pitch black and will be for another two and a half hours. At 4:30 our guide Noy (as in “We’re a-Noy-ed to be awake at the crack

The call for “lights out/electricity off for 24 hours” went out at 6 am yesterday morning. It ended at 6am today. As if on cue, the birds

By law (in theory) today’s blog post should be short and boring. In the past, the government turned off electricity, phone, and internet service

[Gentle reader, apologies in advance for the length of this entry.] Happy Spring Equinox! Today we have to be at the beach by 5:45 for a quick

It’s a bit of a funny ‘good bye’ at our hotel. They’re thanking us for coming and wishing us safe travels. Our answer is “See you soon… we’ll