by Dian Turner | May 15, 2019 | 2019, CUBA, LATEST POST, NORTH AMERICA
After a few days of fishing, our road trip to Havana took us about 3 hours along the seashore, and obviously that included stopping for mojitos😁. My favorite thing about traveling abroad is learning the history of a country, experiencing the culture firsthand and...
by Dian Turner | Apr 2, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, LATEST POST, SINGAPORE
Singapore … a country made up of one main island and about 60 small ones surrounding it. Total population is only about 5-1/2 Million people. It’s dubbed The Garden City due to the greenhouse climate. Plants and flowers surround you and everywhere you look, it’s...
by Dian Turner | Mar 29, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
CULTURE SHOCK… a short 3-1/2 hours plane ride from Singapore landed us in another time and place…. Manado, the capital city of the island of Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. A shocking contrast to the clean, sophisticated, urban country we had just left. The...
by Dian Turner | Mar 15, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
PARADISE… what does that word actually symbolize to a diver? The birds singing so loudly at sunrise, they wake you up. Rolling over to a view of the sun’s rays mirrored in the glasslike bay. The first thought that races thru your mind…within a couple...
by Dian Turner | Mar 3, 2018 | 2018, ASIA, INDONESIA, LATEST POST
Selamat Malam (Good Evening) After a week of relaxing and diving at Siladen, this morning we put on our flip flops, took the resort boat over to the mainland, and ventured out to some local villages and the Highlands. Indonesia consists of 5 major islands, but...