Today is travel day. Our flight is late this afternoon around 4 pm. We arrive in Hanoi about 5 pm but the flight is two hours long. As I calculate it, once we arrive in Viet Nam, we will then be exactly 12 hours ahead of the time in Atlanta. So far, this has been a mixed journey. Time on the 12-day cruise was leisurely but Internet was sparse for posting blog updates. Our time in Hong Kong has been busy . . . very busy to say the least and ironically, WIFI ...

Tai O, Hong Kong - January 19, 2018 Last full day in Hong Kong! So sad! Up until now we have been immersed in city-life; we yearned to see country side. Clever as we are (joke!), we managed to determine how to get to Tai O, an ancient fishing village (now tourist depot) via MTR and bus thus avoiding high-prices and canned speeches on a tour bus. Lord, we make ourselves proud!!! I wrote this morning and went to the gym. While I was gone, Stan took ...

Kow Loon, Hong Kong - January 18, 2018 Oh boy, we slept late! We simply do not know in which time zone we might be in. It is now 9 pm in Hong Kong but I think the time in Atlanta is 8 am. Surely one can see how we become discombobulated!!! We did not set an alarm. After so many years of waking to them, I avoid them at all times unless absolutely necessary. That's just one of the lovely bright sides of becoming older and being retired. Never dreame...

Kow Loon, Hong Kong - January 17, 2018 Before we went to sleep last night we determined that Stan was in fact running a fever. He probably had been for some while. Time to breakout the Cipro; he doubled up with Alka-Seltzer and cough drops. Even though he suffered night sweats, he slept and his fever broke. He felt more like exploring Hong Kong this morning. We didn't rush and decided do a trial run to find the "Fast Track to Vic Peak" group meeting pla...

Kow Loon, Hong Kong - January 15-16, 2018 I slept! I actually slept on the flight from Abu Dhabi. Etihad Airlines served us a glass of wine and a nice fish dinner. When the lights turned down, I went to sleep. First this way with my body in a wad, then that way in different wad, blanket on; blanket off; then upside down in my seat and finally across Stan. But I slept. Once I roused up enough to raise the blind and look out the plane's window. I near...