Uncle Markie out and about.
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Just a reminder to those readers arriving here from FaceBook. Links from FaceBook are a direct link to this post, so you miss the previous posts. You can see all the posts by either clicking on the UMTravels banner, or HERE. When I travel – I’m not one of those people who does stuff in […]
Just a reminder to those readers arriving here from FaceBook. Links from FaceBook are a direct link to this post, so you miss the previous posts. You can see all the posts by either clicking on the UMTravels banner, or HERE. Sean took Monday and Tuesday off so those are out museum days…and with him […]
Who would have thought I’d be up at 6am…guessing that it has to do with “early to bed”. Or maybe it was the fact we pulled anchor and are under way again. Breakfast is at 7, we need to be off the boat at 8 for transfer to smaller boats to explore the Mekong Delta […]
Slept well last night – those beds are wonderful! But breakfast calls – and it’s a huge buffet (included in the room): And this isn’t even the bread/juice/cereal/pastry stand – I didn’t get much there, so why bother – well. I did get a slice of paté. Pigletté had some peach juice (he doesn’t eat […]
One of my biggest worries of this trip was that a delay in arriving into Saïgon would screw the trip to Cần ThÆ¡ the following morning as there was only twelve hours between landing and getting picked up for the tour. Alas, no worries, even with the delay at the Visa Desk. In the morning […]
Trying to keep on top of this trip – and slipping further behind. Cause: too much fun. Damn fun! 5am wake-up call…I don’t really like those, but I don’t set the schedule, I just pick the cheapest redemption values. It’s a little hard to get pictures of Dubai when you arrive after dark and you […]
In some ways this section of the trip excites me almost as much as checking off Vietnam from my “bucket list”. It will be my first ride on an Airbus 380-800 – and it’s upstairs (the A380 is a two-level [three with cargo] passenger aircraft). But first I need to get to the airport (thanks […]
Planned this trip months ago, and as the timing turns out, perfect since my buddy I’m going to visit is returning state side in a month…but first I have to get there. The bag is packed with 10 short-sleeve Hawaiian-esque shirts, all nicely rolled in a line: Add cotton bathrobe, shorts, sandals, a few socks, […]
Nothing like a $160.10 round-trip flight to get me motivated to travel – add complimentary upgrades to First in both directions and I’m in. Staying with Jameson (faux-nephew) and his girlfriend Carolynn at their place a couple of blocks from old town Folsom. Got my own cat-free room – yes, the cat is the downside […]
A customer at the shop today was paying with an Alaska Airlines branded credit card and I ask, “Where are you planning on travelling on your miles?” He mentioned a destination, but he also mentioned that there was an award sale going on that I didn’t know about (and I thought I knew EVERY sale)….40,000 […]
Sort of a quick year in review…lost Mom in July along with a number of others of my contemporaries that lost their moms this year – final count was six. Add another friend who decided to check out early – makes me reflect on life a little more than usual. But those were the low […]