"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 ...

We arrived early this morning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and I had a great day today. As usual, the ship was dockside at around 0800 and we had to work with immigration to clear the ship, distribute landing cards and passports etc... so it was about 11:00am by the time we were done with that and noon before I got off of the ship. Once again, the Explorer is docked somewhere in a ridiculous location 10km from the city center so we have to take shuttle busses to ...