Well we made it! A plane full of Tongans and every household appliance you can fit into the hold of a 737. After leaving LA. we landed 10 hours later in Fiji for a 16 hour layover. Walked or should I say could have walked across the street to the hotel where we spent the day laying by the pool watching planes land and take off. I got a jump start on my yearly sunburn and am lobster like here in Tonga. The plane ride over was fast and seemed like every Tongan over...

Day two in California we find ourselves in Santa Monica. Yesterday we flew into LAX and got a car and drove over to the Queen Mary for our first night here. We have stayed here before and this is the busiest we have ever seen it. They have new management and have built a cruise terminal next door so there are many improvements on the ship. Once here I hardly ever leave the ship as it is a destination in it self. Being hotel guest you have complete run of the ship...

Okay scratch 7 off the list til next year the Lewisville house and a lack of Delta miles will keep us local this year. So we decided to head to The Kingdom of Tonga,Fiji and Samoa. We were signed up for a Panama Canal cruise but that started getting pricey so we bought Tickets to Fiji on sale through Cathay Pacific and then we will use an island hopper passes to get to Tonga and Samoa. We will get there with a stop in LAX to visit my favorite Hotel Queen Mary. Sh...

Well it's already been a week since the end of our World Tour 2010 and we are settling back into the groove. Bags are back in the extra closet, bills are all paid, invoices are in the mail. Funny how fast the time goes and a vacation as big as ours seems like no more than a distant memory. People ask what was your favorite place and I really didn't have a favorite as they all were so different. MV Aranui we were on the Ocean for nearly two weeks plenty of hot wat...

Madagascar part three.Well after the four hour hike we were ready for some relaxing so we made our way back to the hotel cleaned up and walked into town.Ranomafana is very small maybe three hundred residents.The main square in town has many little shops for anything you may need to survive.Taxi buses stop here and let the folks get out for a stretch.Taxi buses are the main way of getting from point a to b.They are six passenger buses with up to 15 passengers and ...