Somewhere in between China and sailing across the Pacific, we made a five-day stop in Japan. It was rainy, and we had booked a room in Kyoto, so the first order of business was taking the train there from Kobe. Easier said than done—particularly if you’d just offloaded from a ship and didn’t have any [...]
Photo Friday: Angkor Thom, Cambodia
January 20, 2012 By 42 Comments
I’ve ridden camels. I’ve pet sharks. I’ve been thrown off an ostrich. I’ve had my lunch swiped by a monkey. But up until my visit to Cambodia, I’d never actually sat on an elephant. When Mom and I were in South Africa two years ago, we visited an elephant sanctuary. We fed them, we nuzzled [...]
Photo Friday: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
January 6, 2012 By 27 Comments
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of when a Vietnamese army toppled the Khmer Rouge regime from Phnom Penh—a topic I will write about in greater depth next week—so I thought it fitting that today’s Photo Friday come from the Cambodian capital (again). This oft-overlooked Southeast Asian hub is extremely rich in both culture and history. SVV [...]
Tailor Made in Saigon
January 2, 2012 By 36 Comments
Some of the most fun SVV and I had during our Semester at Sea voyage was getting wardrobes custom-made in Vietnam. That should come as no surprise, as I sort of love clothes, not to mention worked in retail in college and at a fashion magazine later in life, but up until two years ago, [...]
Photo Friday: Kyoto, Japan
December 30, 2011 By 37 Comments
The last stop on the Asian leg of our Semester at Sea voyage was in Japan. We docked in Kobe, but SVV and I immediately hopped a train from there to Kyoto for the night (about $10 each and a 45-minute ride). News flash: Japan is expensive, y’all. While a few of our ship friends [...]
Photo Friday: Shanghai, China
December 23, 2011 By 30 Comments
The whole four days we were in Shanghai, a curtain of cold and gloom hung heavy over the city in an ominous sort of manner. But at night, it was a different story. This fog only served to enhance the skyline lit up along the Bund and over the water in Pudong. We snuck up [...]
Photo Friday: Lantau Island, Hong Kong
December 9, 2011 By 27 Comments
While in Hong Kong last month, we went on a Semester at Sea FDP with Professor Jim Huffman and took the hour-long bus ride over to Lantau Island, the biggest of the Islands District isles and home to the Hong Kong International Airport, as well as Disneyland. Our first stop was to the ancient fishing [...]
