Author: melmalinowski

Two years ago, I met a beautiful woman in my travels abroad. I had not planned on marrying again, and was not dating anyone, anywhere. She changed my mind about that. After a wait of nearly a year to get USA permission, she accompanied me to the USA, and on June 15, 2019 we were…

In the Spring of 2019, Pin and I began her journey to the United States (to marry me) by touring Vietnam from south to north (after our Singapore February visit).

Singapore has long been one of my favorite cities. Clean, lush and green, with lots of good Asian food, parks, ample buses and subways. I think it perhaps the best run large city in the world. I never tire of visiting Singapore. Judy and I would often make ‘mileage runs’ from San Francisco to Singapore,…

Continuing to explore Thailand, we headed west from Bangkok to the Kanchanaburi area, home to several big national parks. We went to visit a major tourist attraction, famous because of the book and movie of that name. We learned that the book and movie are 90% inaccurate, a fantasy, but that there was a major…

Phuket Island in the south of Thailand has become a very popular beach destination. It is as beautiful as always, but the number of tourists is a bit much for us, so we’re only overnighting on the way in, and then driving to the north. So, we drove about 2 hours north to Khao Lak…