
Hoi An: The Real Reason We Return to Vietnam
In 2008, our Intrepid Travel group drove from Da Nang to Hoi An, a Vietnamese national cultural site where we stayed for three nights. It...
In 2008, our Intrepid Travel group drove from Da Nang to Hoi An, a Vietnamese national cultural site where we stayed for three nights. It...
O During our first visit to Vietnam in 2008, we did not visit the Central Highlands, so added the area to this trip. For several...
Tom and I visited Vietnam three times: 2008, 2012 and 2017. On our first trip, the itinerary was set by the tour company, Intrepid Travel...
Tom and I took three trips to Vietnam over a period of almost ten years, 2008-2017. In this set of posts, I’ll try to describe the...
Rural Home Street Dentist Milkman Animals Inside, People on Top We drove back to New Delhi after nine weeks of traveling...
Our fourth loop took us from New Delhi to northern and western India, all the way to Dharamshala, the home of the Dalai Lama, and the...
Without a doubt, Varanasi (also known as Benares) is the most Hindu and most interesting place we visited. Located on the banks of the...
Our third loop left New Delhi and returned to Agra, because we were with a new Intrepid Travel group -- but again it was just Gill, which...
Our travel around Rajastahn was enhanced by our traveling companions. Our group was very small -- besides us, we were joined only by...
A hot sunset over the Arabian Sea at the Cherai Beach Resort We left Tennessee at the end of January 2009, and flew to Kochi, where the...
In January 2009, Tom and I spent about nine weeks traveling around India. We used a company called Intrepid Travel...
At one point, Tom said, “This would be a great trip except for the roads.” Sometimes they were good, sometimes terrible, sometimes they...
Because the summer was unusually cold and rainy and they'd already had snow at Denali (in early August!), Tom and I took a serious look...
After fishing our fingers off, we headed north again through Anchorage and up the Parks Highway toward Denali National Park and the...
We entered Alaska through the town of Skagway, which is a microcosm of everything Alaska. (On the map below, it’s located north of Juneau...
We arrived in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway, on 22 June and had our windshield replaced that afternoon,...
OK, friends -- let's look at Canada. Yes, it's what's above that solid line on most maps of North America shown to children at schools...
In 2018, Tom, Maggie, and I headed north for our second trip to Canada, driving through the northern US and Canada. This post is an...
In 2018, we returned to Alaska, driving from east Tennessee across Canada to the Alaska Highway. I posted for friends on a great FREE...
We made three trips to southeast Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos) in the past twenty years, and learned a great deal about how...