Back in February, we took a Norwegian Cruise Line Southern Caribbean Cruise. Life has gotten in the way, so travel blogging has taken a back seat for a little bit. This is the Cliff’s Notes version of our last vacation. Third Time’s A Charm We actually had a future cruise certificate we had attempted to…
Chuck found out about I LOVE Cuba Photo Tours on one of the travel message boards and they have incredible ratings from both the people on the message boards and on Trip Advisor. From the very beginning, they were awesome to deal with. Chuck emailed the owner, Yosel and got a response back really quickly….
Yes, yes, yes… we’re WAY behind posting about our pre-Christmas Havana Cuba trip. Chuck and I wanted to make sure we took a Cuba trip before too much changed and before it because to ‘Westernized.” With that said, we still like all the modern conveniences of A/C, WIFI, and US dollars. The Cuba Trip Plan…
Sorry we went MIA, we’ve been staying local
In China, the Yangtze River is known as Chang Jiang or Long River. The next part of our China trip was a very mixed bag. We embarked on a three-day Yangtze River cruise from Chongqing to Yichang. This was our first riverboat cruise, as we had only cruised on much larger ships in…
Ya, because we didn’t eat enough already… along the way we tried or saw great snack foods that were too interesting to pass up. On our trip from Beijing to Xi’an, we had a relatively short flight and just got snack boxes. Included in the box was a bag of crispy apple chips, a slice…
Ok, ok, I can hear several friends laughing already. We traveled several hours in a bus heading from Chengdu to Chongqing with a few stops along the way. When we entered the highway our driver had to stop at a checkpoint, get out of the bus and sign in. Apparently, truck drivers in China can’t…
Yes, I admit it, we’re both of the age where we remember the big orange roofs. I vaguely remember milkshakes and floats but not more than that. I went to college in Hyde Park New York in 1981 and remember seeing one up the road from the school. I think my parents stayed there when…
The name should have been enough… We REALLY like spicy food, we have a jar of Thai hot peppers in fish sauce in the refrigerator at home, we ate our way through Thailand… but this took us to a new level. We arrived in Chengdu by the new high-speed bullet train, it just opened a…
One of the ONLY things we didn’t really enjoy out of the entire trip was a stop for lunch on the way to see the Xi’an Terracotta Warriors. Most of our meals had been served family style and were Chinese food. This is was actually at a beautiful 5 Star hotel with immaculate western style…