Godzilla Reigns
Just a quick final post from Tokyo. We stopped here for just a few nights mostly to visit friends and colleagues from our days at Weyerhaeuser and Westwood. We’d been here and many other cities in Japan for business (and golf) several times a year for the past 30 years, so just spending some time wi...
Singapore Spice for a short visit
Singapore was a stop necessitated to get to Tokyo on the best (meaning cheapest) flights. Eileen had been here once or twice for work, maybe 15 years ago, but I had not, and we were both wanting a chance to see this city, and taste some of the amazing food. Just a two night stop, so to make the most...
Beautiful Bali
It’s only about a three hour flight from Bangkok to Bali - about like going Seattle to Phoenix. We arrived and within another 30 minutes we were at our Marriott Vacation Club. Just opened about 6 months ago, so everything was clean and new (and a few things were still not quite completed). Marriott...
Songkran in Bangkok, and more elephants!
While we experienced just one day of the Songkran festival (Thai New Year) in Koh Samui, we’d have a chance to experience a few more days when we came back through Bangkok. It was wet and wild again, with water works over at the Icon Siam and private pool parties at our hotel. We saw some beautiful...
Wet & Wild on Koh Samui
It’s a short hop from Phuket to the island of Koh Samui, just about a 40 minute flight. The airport is one of the smallest we’ve been to (and we lived in Kona!). They have cute little trolleys that meet you at the airplane and take you over to the main airport, which is all open air. A very quaint a...
Blue skies in Phuket
After a few days in very smoky Chiang Rai, it was great to land in Phuket and actually see some blue (still a bit hazy, but we’ll take it) sky. Only about a 10 minute ride from the airport to our home for the next 12 days in Mai Khao at the JW Marriott and Vacation Club - yes, more Vacation Club poi...
Smokin’ in Chiang Rai
Well, we were cookin’ in Chaing Mai, but in Chiang Rai, it was “smokin’”! Literally - the smoke in the air was heavy here, and again evidently this time of year is when the smoke from burning in Myanmar (it’s outlawed to burn fields in Thailand) gets trapped in the inversion layer here. You could sm...
Things are Cookin’ in Chiang Mai
The flight to Chiang Mai was only about an hour or so, and with the pollution (well actually smoke) in the air, not much to see along the way. We found out that this time of year is known for inversions that trap the smoke from all the burning going on in Myanmar (Burma) nearby. And we also found -...
Getting acclimated to Asia
Time to get traveling again - this time to Asia for a few month. But wait…masks???Luckily, only on the airline and they eliminated this requirement a few days later. We headed to Asia in early March, stopping first for about a week in beautiful Seoul. This gave us a chance to see old friends and col...