Asia 2013

  • San Francisco layover
  • Our friend Tom in Singapore
  • dinner at a Hawker Center
  • National orchid garden
  • National orchid garden
  • National orchid garden
  • cool house at National orchid garden
  • Tom, Kyle and Mike
  • Marina Bay Sands Hotel
  • Grand Palace
  • Pad Thai lunch at Shangri-La hotel
  • Dumnuen Sauak floating market
  • floating market
  • boat ride through the floating market
  • vendor at floating market
  • amazing the boats never crash
  • mango,sweet rice with sweet milk
  • Bridge over the river Kwai
  • Tiger temple
  • Mike with a tiger by the tail
  • my new kitty friend
  • walking the tiger
  • Elephant camp
  • air temp 108 degrees as we leave Bangkok
  • leaving Bangkok
  • streets of Ho Chi Minh city
  • Ho Chi Minh city square
  • coffee vendor
  • refreshment at the Rex hotel
  • Rex hotel rooftop bar
  • typical traffic with lots of motor bikes
  • Dong Pho restaurant
  • Saigon dinner
  • coconut candy factory
  • Mekong Delta tributary boat ride
  • donkey cart ride
  • Mekong Delta tour
  • Snakes are my friend
  • bee farm
  • bee product tasting
  • Cao Lau noodle lunch
  • market lunch
  • Star ferry
  • cuttlefish shaped dim sum
  • brother Brian at Temple night market
  • The Bund in Shanghai
  • Aqualina dining room on ship
  • Kobe at night -- no it's not a ferris wheel
  • Zen garden Kyoto
  • Ken our guide Kyoto - Tours by Locals.com
  • garden in Kyoto
  • Kyoto pond
  • Kyoto garden
  • ship dining room
  • Incheon Chinatown lunch
  • Inchon
  • empty bread baking
  • Fish Display Incheon Korea
  • arriving Incheon
  • China town
  • snow on our last night of the cruise
  • Forbidden City with Dennis
  • Forbidden City
  • Helen at The Forbidden City
  • The Forbidden City with Dennis and Mike
  • our group at the Forbidden City
  • a part of the Forbidden City
  • more Forbidden City
  • and more Forbidden City
  • garden at Forbidden City
  • part of our tour day 1 Beijing
  • Beijing Opera House
  • Beijing marching on...
  • tram up to The Great Wall
  • The Great Wall path
  • slippery walk on The Great Wall
  • Mutianyu Great Wall map
  • The Schoolhouse
  • private dining room lunch at The Schoolhouse
  • The Schoolhouse complex
  • another fine duck dinner!
  • US Embassy with Gary Locke
  • US Embassy
  • Watercube at Olympic Park
  • Birds Nest stadiium at Olympic park
  • US Embassy residence entry
  • US Embassy residence
  • Breakfast at the US Embassy residence
  • Helen and Brian with Mona Locke
  • Mona, Kyle and Dennis
  • brother and sister in the residence entry hall
  • Brian, embassy staffer, Dennis and Mike
  • shopping at Yashow market
  • final dinner in Beijing..thanks Dennis!!
  • Anyone for bugs
  • bugs birds anything at the Donghuamen night market
  • eating a grasshopper
  • more yum yum
  • Brian eating a seahorse