September 14, 2025
City Exploring in the Daytime
I started on the Hop on Hop off bus but there was too much chatter about communist history and the bus was going in circles - so I got off to walk more in the areas I was most interested in and Sherrie Joined me. We went over to the Shanghai Pearl first and this structure dazzled at night, but looks kinda old and odd during the daylight. We passed on riding up to the observation decks it was a hazy day and frankly the better views to me are down at the ground looking up.
I really like this perspective with the Bottle opener high-rise in the back ground and the bottle cap in foreground!
Thursday, October 23rd we arrived in the Port of Bitung, Indonesia to huge fan fare despite the pouring rain. Turns out we were the first cruise ship to visit this Port in a long time!
WOW!!! PALAU is the tropical Paradise I have been dreaming about! This is trip just reached a new level of OMG!!
Got to love a place that sells shirts saying " Where the heck is Yap? " Colonia ( population 3,100 ) is the Capital and Harbor town of Yap State ( population 11,600 ) one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia. We are in the Pacific Ocean or Philippine Sea just north of the equator, Papua New Guinea and Australia.