We hadn’t been on the ground in Cambodia for an hour, when our bus whisked us away to the Mekong River for a sunset cruise. At first, I wasn’t so keen on being on a boat again when we’d already been on the Semester at Sea ship for two full months at this point. I [...]
Photo Friday: Hong Kong, SAR
November 18, 2011 By 32 Comments
After Vietnam, we sailed to Hong Kong, where many of the students took a ferry directly across the bay to do a little Macau gambling at the likes of the Venetian, MGM Grand and the Wynn. While I had just done the Macau thing two years ago, SVV and I opted to kill some time [...]
Photo Friday: Penang, Malaysia
November 11, 2011 By 16 Comments
Often, while Kristin is slaving away and ticking off boxes on fancy, bureaucratic documents while we’re in port, I get into the countryside for little effortless jaunts with our carefully planned collegiate extension of U.Va and the ISE curriculum. Semester at Sea offers field programs to students as part of their practicum in-country with over-qualified [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Town, South Africa
November 4, 2011 By 32 Comments
Last year when I was visiting my sister in Cape Town during her own Semester at Sea voyage, we didn’t stop sight-seeing the entire six days we were in the Western Cape. This time was different, as I had to work much of the four days there after my weekend away in Langebaan. Each morning [...]
Photo Friday: Tsaarbank, South Africa
October 28, 2011 By 26 Comments
Are you sick of South Africa yet? No? Good. It seems silly perhaps, but even though my first visit to South Africa was only 18 months ago, I’m pretty sure my blog has more posts dedicated to the country than any one place. But what can you do? It’s not my fault South Africa is [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Peninsula, South Africa
October 21, 2011 By 36 Comments
After our extremely relaxing weekend on the West Coast, we returned to Cape Town, where I worked the following three days, pretty much from 6:30am until late afternoon daily, before going out somewhere delicious to eat each evening. (South Africa does a lot of things right, but at the very top of that list is [...]
Photo Friday: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
October 7, 2011 By 22 Comments
Back in July after we left Cape Cod, we continued down the coast and used Providence, Rhode Island as our base for the last two nights of our New England vacation. Only we did zero exploring of Providence and, the next morning, made straight for the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard—after nearly missing it, that is, [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Coast, Ghana
September 30, 2011 By 16 Comments
Some years, the M/V Explorer docks in Takoradi, which is much closer in proximity to the Cape Coast. Due to a too-short berth Takoradi granted the ship, our Semester at Sea itinerary was changed to dock in Tema instead, which was a bit of a shame only because there were so many small fishing villages [...]
Photo Friday: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
September 23, 2011 By 28 Comments
When I lived in New York, I had many friends from New England who would talk about summering in the Hamptons or Cape Cod, a concept completely foreign to me, as most Southerners I know make for the Florida Panhandle when the beach comes calling. When SVV and I were in Boston with my parents [...]
Photo Friday: Marrakech, Morocco
September 16, 2011 By 33 Comments
I spent more than two hours writing a blog post to accompany these photos, and when I hit “save” WordPress kindly gave me a blank form and has no record of my work. I am at my wit’s end with WordPress—and will likely be switching platforms when I launch Camels & Chocolate 3.0 this winter [...]
