Day 5, December 27: Miracles, Butterflies, and Towers
This day was filled with visits to essentially four locations: (1) the Dubai Miracle Garden, (2) the Dubai Butterfly Garden, (3) the...
This day was filled with visits to essentially four locations: (1) the Dubai Miracle Garden, (2) the Dubai Butterfly Garden, (3) the...
Today was a day to visit 2 other emirate states. We started at Sharjah, which is the third largest emirate state by population. Sharjah...
Museum of the Future, Christmas night Upon our return from the morning's tour and shopping, we immediately went to the hotel's Cinescope...
This is the morning of Christmas Day! Neither of us slept well last night. I felt as though I had not slept at all. Between adjusting to...
Today, we both got up rested from our journey and time difference from yesterday in pretty good shape. I was hungry so we went to...
The departure day has finally arrived. We woke up early -- early for me at least -- got dressed and fixed breakfast. After which, a last...
On Sunday morning, December 22, we will leave for Dubai. On the first leg of the journey, we will fly from Atlanta to Houston. We will...
This was the day to leave the ship. We awoke early, about 6:50am, to get ourselves washed up, dressed, do our final room check, then head...
This was the second and final day of sailing back to Singapore, the port/city/nation from which our cruise began. Tomorrow morning, we...
Today was the first of two sailing days, as we head back to Singapore. Fortunately, we did not have a lot planned for the day, because...
(This blogpost was going to be so long with all of the photos, I was posting, that I decided to split it into two parts. Continuing with...
Today would be a very long day. Everyone taking a tour of Bangkok met at 7:30am, in the Royal Theater, including the members of the Our...
Today was our first day in port in Thailand. The port we are docked in is called Laem Chabang, and it is clearly a major freight port;...
Today was another day cruising at sea, as we headed from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam towards Laem Chabang, Thailand. Laem Chabang is the...
I am combining two days of posts, because yesterday, 2/19, was very slow. We experienced essentially three things on the ship: (1) we had...
It was a fairly slow day. We started off the day with Patrise having a 2-hour series of calls and emails, for a complicated client...
If we were still in Atlanta, it would be the evening of February 16, as the sun was rising on the morning of February 17 in Singapore....
This is a day to do as we please in Singapore. No officially organized activities. Therefore, after breakfast, Patrise and I headed out...
Patrise was not feeling well most of the the afternoon -- upset stomach problems. She stayed in bed and napped most of the afternoon,...
Singapore is an island, city-state nation of almost 6 million people. The residents are primarily Chinese, Malay, and Indian in their...
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Embrace the Wanderlust
Now that retirement is here, we are hitting the road to see some more places on our bucket list. Immediately below you will see the posts for our current trip to the South Pacific. Further back in time you will see blog posts for las year's RV tri