Month: January 2026

We limped back to the Riviera, down one man. The events are recounted below. Our bright orange, tender steered a direct course for the Komodo coastline.  Its contents included two guides a trapper, a navigator, a naturalist and 25 pampered and entitled seniors. Komodo (pronounced Como-Doe) is one of the 17,000 islands that make up… Continue reading 25th Wedding Anniversary: Komodo Dragons

From the SS Riviera ship logs November 22, 2025 At 288 million people, Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world behind India, China, and the USA. Indonesia is a country of islands.  The count stands at 17,000 of them but the opposition party is demanding a recount. Indonesia has one official language but… Continue reading 25th Wedding Anniversary: Bali

The Java Sea cradled the Riviera as our sails swelled with its heavy but harmless humid breeze.  A full day at sea, and we arrived into Surabaya with a mild thump of the Riviera’s bow against the city’s ancient dock.  The Dutch East India company built this city and the improvements ceased when they fled…fortunate… Continue reading 25th Wedding Anniversary in Surabaya

Like an 18th century privateer with a Monarch’s deed to pillage the perfumed seas of the South Pacific, we made our way to the port city of Singapore. We met in New York where Susan fell for my swashbuckling smile and baronial ambitions which, alas, never parlayed into sovereign territory on the Upper West Side. … Continue reading 25th Wedding Anniversary in Singapore