Hiking in Hilo

After the delights of seeing and hearing a volcano at night, we headed out the following day with lots more volcanic adventure ahead of us. We started the day with a trip down Crater Rim Drive, an eleven mile road around the Kilauea Caldera in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Solidified lava can be seen for […]

Halong Bay

After a four hour drive east from Hanoi, we boarded our Vietnamese junk boat. Rich and I were embarking on a three day, two night sailing trip around Halong Bay, an area with over one thousand six hundred limestone islands jutting out of the sea, declared a world natural heritage site by UNESCO in nineteen […]

Magnificent mountain views

One of the things that really surprised me about Cape Town was Table Mountain. Not specifically the mountain itself, it is as majestic in reality as it looks in photos. The thing I wasn’t expecting was for it to be shrouded in cloud most of the time. For our first two days in Cape Town […]