Greetings from Okinawa, where our day brought us a nice mix of the old, the new, and the natural. The old was the grounds of Shuri...

Konnichiwa, which is hello in Japanese. I actually learned that 53 years ago when I spent three weeks in Japan attending a World Boy...

Wowza, what a day. You can’t possibly see everything worth seeing in a new country in a single day, but we sure did try. As athletes are...

Yesterday I said that one day in Hong Kong wouldn’t be enough. Today proved me right. We had a good day yesterday, but today was even...

Put this one on your bucket list. Hong Kong is a gem, and I’m already convinced that a trip to Asia would not be complete without a stop...

Manila is a big, modern city. Really big, with a population of almost 15 million. And really modern, its skyline filled with gleaming...

While most Americans have heard of Bali, we probably can’t pick it out on a map, and our knowledge seldom goes beyond its popularity with...

Asia! We made landfall on our fifth continent today, and the change couldn’t have been more dramatic. After spending the past several...

Today marked the last of our four ports of call in Australia, one I had been looking forward to for some time, and it didn’t disappoint....

Airlie Beach is a small, one street town of 5000 souls, 685 miles north of Brisbane and 368 miles south of Cairns, with not much between...

Crickey! It’s the Irwins. Brisbane may be Australia’s third largest city, and it may be the capital of Queensland, a state larger than...

With Sydney reluctantly behind us, we’re now working our way north along Australia’s east coast towards the Great Barrier Reef and...

What a day. I still can’t believe how much we jammed into a single day in this amazing city. When we finally packed it in my pedometer...

Over the years I have read and heard that there’s nothing quite like sailing into Sydney Harbour (that’s how they spell it). Indeed, our...

Kia ora from the Tasman Sea. That’s probably the last time I’ll get to write that, because New Zealand, where that Maori greeting is...

Well, I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. After more than thirty years of off and on cruising with Royal Caribbean I can’t...

Recently I received a somewhat pointed question from a friend who wanted to know how many sea days there are on this nine month world...

Tahiti. The very name conjures up images of black sand beaches, swaying palm trees, native Polynesians paddling outrigger canoes out...

I’m in love. From the moment I looked outside when we anchored just offshore until we tendered back to the ship late in the day, I was...

Greetings from the South Pacific, where it is currently February 24. I say this with a bit of uncertainty, because we have had an...