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Hong Kong September 11, 2007 In a few minutes The Global Adventure will make her way up spectacular Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong, on her final journey as our ship. On this, the anniversary of 9/11, and as she has always done when entering a foreign port, The Global Adventure will fly her 8’x5′ American Flag […]
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Northbound on the China Sea About 420 miles southwest of Hong Kong A chat room participant recently suggested that our trip would have been more successful if my family and I had taken a cruise ship around the world. I’m afraid this poor fellow entirely missed the point of our Global Adventure. First and foremost: […]
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Pattaya, Thailand (Near Bangkok) Time to Come Home First and foremost, I want to assure everyone who has followed our journey that I am fine, and that my family is fine. There is no emergency bringing me home. No crises. However, having crossed the vast Pacific Ocean, the Sulu Sea, the South China Sea, and […]
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Pattaya, Thailand Today, Sunday, August 19, Thailand is holding a nationwide referendum on a proposed new constitution. While it is expected to pass, regional vote tallies will give Thailand’s currently unelected leaders some insight into the level of resentment many, if not most, Thais still feel about the military coup they staged here on September […]
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Pattaya, Thailand August 18 After a very choppy six-day passage across the South China Sea, we arrived at the Ocean Marina in Pattaya, about forty miles southeast of Bangkok, early this morning. The Ocean Marina is large, new and beautiful. The people at the Marina office were wonderfully hospitable. Unfortunately, because we arrived on a […]
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On Sunday, August 19, and on Sunday August 26 we will air previously broadcast editions of Keith’s Global Adventure finance show. Live broadcasts will resume Sunday, September 2 in a new 2-hour format that will air from 8–10 AM on NewsTalk 550, KFYI in Phoenix. All new radio shows will be posted here to the […]
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18:30 Local Time About 400 Miles South of Bangkok Entering The Gulf of Thailand from The South China Sea A Major Change in Conditions In my last dispatch I described the South China Sea as bright and calm, even benign. But within hours of sending that report things changed dramatically. We entered a vast shallow […]
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17:30 Local August 14, 2007 Smack Dab In the Middle of the South China Sea We are about 400 miles east-northeast of Kota Kanabalu, East Malaysia, and about 325 west-southwest of that southern-most tip of Vietnam located at the southeastern corner of the entrance to the Gulf of Thailand. When we reach that point we’ll […]
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Please view the East Malaysia Photo Album on this site! Wow! Kota Kanabalu, the small Malaysian city on the west coast of Borneo, and Sabah, the lush Malaysian state in which KK (everyone’s affectionate name for the city) is located, has stolen our hearts. What an absolutely delightful place this is! Our ship is securely […]
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August 9, 2007 07:00 Local We were two thirds of the way across the Sulu Sea, on a westerly course from Cebu to Puerta Princessa, on the island of Palawan, The Philippines. That’s when Captain Wolf mentioned that many cruisers used the port of Kota Kinabalu, on the west coast of East Malaysia, on the […]
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August 6, 2007 17:00 Local Time The Past 24 Hours We departed Cebu City yesterday afternoon bound for Porta Princessa on the Philippine island of Palawan. Palawan is located about 300 miles west of Cebu Island, away from the main Philippine island group. We spent all of last night on a south-southwest heading along the […]
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The crew and I have made some executive decisions regarding our stay in the Philippines and our near-term itinerary: We’re Departing the Philippines As Soon As Possible We’re going to depart the Philippines the moment the weather permits. Originally we planned to head from Cebu north to Manila, with a possible stop on along the […]
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