May 28, 2025
LA PAZ, MEXICO
We had a gorgegous day to explore the resort town of Las Paz, Mexico. It was nice to see other tourist walking around and not just other Ship people. The architecture was interesting, a significant amount of old, renovated and new mixed together. The streets were clean and tree lined and there was some interesting shops and restaurants. Shockingly, there was a large SEARS store and it was high end merchandise.
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We also found some Fun mural arts lining the city streets and a lot of sculptures lining the Malecon.
We wandered into some of the shops, had a late yummy lunch & drinks up on a rooftop over looking the beach and enjoyed the day!
So excited to get out and explore this huge city. Our Port is attached to a huge shopping mall - so it is a bit of a hike before we even get outside. When we do the heat hits us like a brick wall! There are typhoons, in the area and according to a local, when the storms come in, they first bring a wave of fog, heat and humidity to Hong Kong .
On Saturday August 29, 2026 we achieved another historic milestone on this circumnavigation of the World , we cruised into Hong Kong Harbor. Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. The land encompassed by Hong Kong is confusing. It includes part of the southern coast of mainland China, just below Shenzhen, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories . Looking at a map helps, but the rules changed so many times! I asked my buddy Chat several times, to tell me if what I was looking at was the Hong Kong that the British had owned for years. The answer was never straight forward!
Ha Long Bay in Vietnam is one of those bucket list places I have had in my sights for years. It's the iconic picture in my mind's eye, whenever I think of Vietnam . We had made plans to go with 8 others on a brand new, swanky Red Dragon Junk boat for a harbor cruise and overnight stay, but sadly the weather did not cooperate the whole 4 days we were in port. No ships were permitted to sail, per the local government. Many of us were bummed! This is typhoon session and there was a lot of rain and high winds our first couple of days - we were hoping it would blow out the last day and we could at least do a day trip but no luck!