We took a trip to Hoi An, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_An), for our fortieth anniversary. Noah may have considered Hoi An as a site for his ark, such were the deluges we experienced. But, getting wet was no real bother, because there was lots to see and do. Getting wet at its best? Well, there’s a great story […]
We’re just back from a fine week of vacation, first for a few days in Hua Hin, home of the famous Nigel and then to Saigon and Nha Trang. In Hua Hin, Nigel survived a near catastrophe. A coconut fell from thirty feet above him, grazed his glasses and knocking them to the sidewalk, lacerating […]
This is part 2 of the Myanmar trip story and was written by Dick Svee. Burma Road They lived among an ancient civilization; hundreds of pagodas and stupas in various stages of decay, some with cracks and broken plaster revealing eroding brick foundations; others with trees growing and swallowed by the encroaching forest. […]
Part 1 — from Bill and Sherry — written after they were back on board ship. Life changing. Awesome. Incredible. Overwhelming. Beautiful people. I was traveling alone and this mother with eight children who lives in a small one-room house invited me in to eat with them. … I’ll need some time to unpack what […]
Ira and I have just returned from a 6 day trip to Myanmar/Burma where we joined up with friends we made on Semester at Sea Fall 2002, Bill and Sherry May, and Dick and Beth Svee. These two couples are on Semester at Sea again for the Fall 2006 voyage — Bill is teaching a […]
On December 7 we took the slow train from Bangkok to Khon Kaen. We wanted to see the landscape of this part of Thailand that we had been eager to see. Khon Kaen is the largest city in Isan and a university town. In fact, the university itself –located on 4000 acres–is a town itself. […]
At the end of that week, we took a long weekend in Hua Hin. Hua Hin is a resort town known for its white sands, lush landscapes, restaurants, and European tourists. We went down with Nigel, a Bangkok friend who spends weekends in Hua Hin, where he and his long term partner live. Nigel is […]
We have made two trips to Chiang Mai. At the end of September, we took a two-week “vacation” to Chiang Mai and environs that included a trip to the Golden Triangle and long-tail boat trip on the Mekong. We were just there again (October 28-31) for a “Neurosurgery Review Course”. The following comes from an […]
Phnom Penh I’ve threatened long enough to tell about our trip to Cambodia from 08/29-09/2/2003, so–belatedly– here goes, and it’s definitely out of chronological order. We visited Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. back in late August, early September. For us, the highpoints around Phnom Penh were the loathsome Khmer Rouge killing fields, the cultural and […]