Sunrise To an inveterate sunset junkie, it is forgivable to have forgotten that there are also things we call sunrises. When one’s hotel room looks out across the Mekong River to Laos, facing East, one is quickly reminded of sunrises. We got up early for breakfast so that we could make it to the immigration […]
By the way, if you are seeing this in an email because you have subscribed, I remind you, you can view this post in stevenellen.com by clicking on the title, or the view on website link above. I know the picture is a bit of a bait and switch. We were lucky enough to see […]
We ended the tour with a iconic “long-tail” boat ride through some of Bangkok’s canals. For those who aren’t familiar, these boats have huge motors in the back with propellor shafts that extend about 8 feet past the stern of the boat. The area we toured is considered a poor neighborhood. A room starts at […]
We had planned our snorkeling adventure with Caveman Tours (Caveman pictured above) on Tuesday. Tuesday and Wednesday had winds of 21 and 24 knots respectively. We opted for waiting until a calmer day. Our first stop was to feed the Tarpons. Next we were lucky enough to see a manatee. They can stay underwater for […]
Carmen told us that if there is only one tour, this is the one. We took off in the morning with four of her other guests, a Brazilian couple and two young Romanian women. First Stop: Fuel. We were picked up at Carmen’s dock, then stopped at one of the docks. There was a lot […]
We went to the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal today. Quick reminder: France tried to build the canal in late 1800’s, and it almost bankrupted them. U.S. took over in 1903, but not before they basically sent gunships down and told Colombia that either they would grant Panama independence and get a bunch of […]
On Friday afternoon we finally went fishing. There had been a series of weather delays and assorted issues, but we made it out onto the water. Our guide was Danny, and the boat owner was Juan. We high-tailed it out to a bunch of islands and rocks soutwest of Manuel Antonio. I had asked Danny […]
In the heat of travel negotiations last Spring, Ellen told our friend Anne that we might not make it to visit her and Phil the particular dates she suggested due to other commitments. Anne quickly dissuaded us from that position by disclosing that we would not be visiting only Anne and Phil. Mark and Nina […]
We took the train to Copenhagen from Hamburg. This was our first experience of combining the train with a ferry, as they put the train cars on the ferry, and sailed across from Germany to Denmark. This was also our first experience with a hybrid ferry, that captures excess power from the engines and uses […]
What is one of the first things to be done in Cambridge, England? Why, punting on the River Cam of course. We decided to hop over the channel and visit Lisa, our travel buddy from Portugal, and Ben, her partner, for a bit. Friday afternoon we headed down to visit central Cambridge, lunch, and punt […]
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