Note: Please remember, the image of our cruiser is a placeholder until we are on dry land - or have more reliable Internet. We have a treasure trove of images that can’t be uploaded right now. They will be posted as soon as we are...
Note: Once again, it is impossible to load large files while we are on the Jayavarman. We plan to publish photo essays of the trip once we are on dry land. Meanwhile, please draw the images in your mind’s eye. It is a story is written in...
Editor’s note: Our trip on the Jayavarman, now in Cambodia, includes lavishly decorated palaces and colorful happenings on the water, right now, the Mekong. But you will have to use your mind’s eye to see it all through our words. Internet constraints make uploading large files...
Ed. Note: Photos to follow. We are internet constrained, but want to publish this post in a timely fashion. Living the life of luxury on the Mekong River can entail an early get-up: specifically, the tai chi session on the pool deck begins at 0630. About...
“Hand to God” now up at Denver’s Curious Theatre Company through December 17, 2016. Tickets here. Our Denver theater critic, award-winning author Mark Stevens, reviews the production. [caption id="attachment_62406" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Tyrone wakes up Jason. Courtesy, Curious Theatre Company.[/caption] "Hand to God” thrives on the good side of...
Tai, a former teacher, switched careers and has worked in the travel/cruise industry for over 10 years. On the hour-and-a-half bus ride from Saigon, ok, Ho Chi Minh City, to My Tho, where we would board our boat, he gave us the requisite chapter and verse about the Mekong...
In Vietnam now. Ironically. Received this story from Jesse James Mctigue today. She picked up the link from NPR. It is about a daughter who explored her father’s PTSD, the result of his service in the Vietnam War. Documentary is inserted below. Editor's Note: NPR's Kara Frame made...
A fisherman gets caught in a storm, but he is rescued by a magical turtle. The turtle gives the young man an egg, telling him that he to guard it well; one day he will know why. When that day comes, when the egg grows and grows and cracks open, the five...
Editor's note: Early in my commercial flying career I had the opportunity to learn to fly seaplanes. I never really improved on that initial training, but I retained enough to appreciate the skills of the pilots flying the Cessna Caravan on amphibious floats that returned...
[caption id="attachment_62322" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Approaching Hanoi[/caption] First impressions, as capital cities go, Hanoi is not particularly prepossessing. It lacks the sensual grace of Paris and the raw muscle of New York. On the surface, Hanoi feels more like Athens: in-your-face history, a pile-up of facts, figures and folklore, juxtaposed...
