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May 29 – Yeuyang Well, looks like we’re not about to lose any weight on this trip. The breakfast buffet is a weird mixture of eastern and western, but with a few blatant exceptions, it’s all good. There’s an Egg Guy and an Omelette Guy and a Soup Guy all making fresh stuff, lots of […]

May 28 – Wuhan and the Yangtse The next morning, we’re up in time for the buffet breakfast, which I expected to be a waffle, juice, and coffee. Instead, we were treated to an absolutely first-class buffet! It’s a 24-hour thing, so there’s everything from pork chops to Chinese food (duh!) to a fruit and

May 26/27, Vancouver to Wuhan This one is starting as The Journey From Hell.  After two hours of travelling on buses and skytrains to get to YVR two hours before flight time, we found out that our flight was delayed two hours.  So we got to sit around with our fingers up our butts (no

February 23, 2013 – off to our desert isle So, we were all sitting around one day, and Bob mentioned that a buddy of his said that you could rent a boat in Punta Perula and they’d take you out to some really good snorkeling.  One thing led to another, and pretty soon Deb and

January 31, 2013 – Guadalajara Three After our first two days here, we realized that we wouldn’t even be able to skim the surface of this place in three days, so we extended our stay for another day to take a walking tour of the historical section.  But first, it’s Shopping Day!  Wait a minute,

February 17, 2013 – Not Dead Yet Hi, I’m back.  That was an interesting 2-week hiatus. My fancy-shmancy Nexus 7 woke up dead the morning we went to Guadalajara, which was two or three weeks ago.  I thought it might be in a coma, but now I’m pretty sure it’s stone dead.  Either the charging

January 30, 2013 – Guadalajara Two Some general notes about the city for those who haven’t been here.  Guadalajara is Mexico’s second-largest city, located in the Central Valley, which is in the mountains at 5,200 feet.  This gives it a terrific climate, with nine months of the year in the mid-twenties and three months around

January 29, 2013 – Guadalajara One Well, the last week has been extremely eventful and not without its stresses. Last Monday night, I was off with my buddy Bob playing Texas Holdem with nine other like-minded snowbirds.  Bob won, again, but that’s another story.  Whilst I was there, my left hearing aid started acting up,

January 16, 2013 – In The Trenches Humanitarian aid is a pretty big deal amongst the long-stay snowbirds (is that a redundancy?) in most places, and that’s certainly the case here!  Our friends Cheryl and Kelly have been performing good works down here for three or four years, and this year Deb and I brought

January 12, 2013 – La Manzanilla Deb and I were muttering to each other a few days ago that we were long overdue for an adventure.  We were chatting idly about taking a bus to La Manzanilla, which is a pretty little town about 30 minutes up the coast, when our friends Cheryl and Kelly