Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Vietnam on Jun 9th, 2023
I was a bit “pressured” to provide a review of the Ha Long Bay cruise that we took by one of the staff members aboard the La Regina Grand cruise that we took. Since I find those create a kind of biased view and also because it was difficult for us to find useful reviews […]
Posted in Vietnam on Jun 9th, 2023
We landed in Vietnam early on Monday morning and went through the usual airport arrivals process — all very smooth with our newly minted eVisas (which I almost forgot to get!). Our driver met us at the designated place and time. We proceeded to drive into Hanoi in what I have to assume was rush […]
Posted in Macau on Nov 26th, 2019
Note: as mentioned here, I’m only posting this over 3 years later. Unlike some of the other posts from this trip, I didn’t finish the draft. We left the Hong Kong Disney Resort around 6:30am in order to have a full day to explore Macau. Being familiar with the journey, I didn’t even bother to […]
Posted in Hong Kong on Nov 24th, 2019
Note: as mentioned here, I’m only posting this over 3 years later w/ minimal clean up edits. Well, sort of “Hong Kong,” if I’m being honest… We spent these two days at Hong Kong Disneyland, which admittedly seems like a waste of at least one day. However, there are good and valid reasons for this: […]
Posted in China, Delta Airlines on Nov 23rd, 2019
Note: in the interest of time (or lack thereof), I’m writing these posts more in batch form and impressionistically vs. my usual day-by-day recap. Days 1 & 2 were really all about the journey, having left home around 7:00am on Tuesday morning and arriving at our hotel around 8:30pm on Wednesday night. Given a good […]