Once again...I'm behind with the blog entries. For some reason, I haven't had a huge desire to write the last few days. We've just spent 4 days in Japan; our last truly foreign Port of Call and are now "headed home." I did enjoy Japan and had the opportunity to experience some cool things but I felt a little numb to all of it. At this point in the voyage, I just felt like it was another new city, another new place, what is the conversion rate here? what...

OK....So I know I'm behind and haven't written about China yet. It's alright...I promise I will. It gets overwhelming to blog about a 4 day trip through China and I admit to procrastinating. Plus, there's alot to do, catch up on and plan for in these short 2 day stretches at sea. And when I say alot to do, I mean a few things to do and then I took a nap today before the lifeboat drill and watched The Nanny Diaries yesterday. We arrive in Japan tomorrow morning!!...

Ahhhhhh.... what a day! Today has been a long day and pretty frustrating overall but good at the same time. It started out by me oversleeping (which I haven't done in a really long time) and running up to the Faculty/Staff Lounge for Passport Distribution but there were some complications with Chinese Immigration and the ship's administration couldn't decide on a procedure so things kept changing and we just ended up sitting there and didn't get off the ship unti...

We'll be arriving in Hong Kong tomorrow morning after only 2 days at sea! I'm not so sure I like these super short stretches of time in between ports. There's alot to do in between these 'big countries' and not enough time to collect oneself and prepare for what's next. We actually have to take every person on board's temperature as well for the Chinese Immigration officials. You're not allowed to get off of the ship and enter the country if you have a fever! Its...

"Is it nature or nurture that sends a person out onto the Road - that whispers in one's ear that it's time to take off and make for the horizon, just to see what's out there?The urge to travel - to open our minds and move beyond the familiar - is as old as man himself. It's what drove the ancient Romans to visit Athens's Acropolis and Verona's amphitheater. It's what sent Marco Polo off on his momentous journey east, and what moved St. Augustine of Hippo to ...