Just to let all our readers know that we having been spending the last week in London with our family and are off to spend a week at a rented cottage in Ireland this week. So we are a little behind with the blog and will catch up whenl Linda and I are in Tuscany the following two weeks.

Love L&T

Thanks for your letters to us.  I guess we must be getting homesick because the letters are sure fun to read.

Sean:  King Tut's tomb was closed because it is one of the smallest  as he was so young when he died. 

We are a bit behind since Egypt because we have been in a new port almost everyday.  Promise to finish before we arrive back in Canada, eh!

Love L&T

We were in Greece yesterday and Leona we did see Terry and Charmaine's ship but we did not see them.  Pictures to follow.

Leona, thanks for your email.  Isn't it great to get your hands dirty?

Our time is winding down now.  Almost a different port everyday until the end.  Makes it difficult to keep up.  But we do have that 2 weeks in Tuscany to catch up.

Love and Kisses,

L&T

Some of you have been asking questions about life on the ship so we did a little piece to that end.

Keep the questions coming cos' we love to hear from you.

You need to look under Canada to find the story and pictures.

Enjoy, L&T

Some of you have been asking questions about life on the ship so we did a little piece to that end.

Keep the questions coming cos' we love to hear from you.

You need to look under Canada to find the story and pictures.

Enjoy, L&T

Just a new bit to add...some of our everyday goings on .......

Look for it under Canada.

Love, L&T

Just a new bit to add...some of our everyday goings on .......

Look for it under Canada.

Love, L&T

Just a new bit to add...some of our everyday goings on .......

Look for it under Canada.

Love, L&T

Just a note to let you all know that the blog is up to date. Dubai is in. We are now on our second day of six at sea. This is our biggiest strech. We have been looking forward to it. Nice time to sit by the pool catch a few rays and read a few more books.

It was very nice for me to get to speak to Kevin the other day on the phone from Dubai.

Please keep all the messages coming as we are really enjoying reading them and hearing about you!

Love T&L

March 18, 2008

Phnom Penh for Sihanoukville, Cambodia and Ko Samui, Thailand are in!

Getting caught up now that we have three sea days before we are off to the Taj Mahal and Agra.  It’s overcast today so we may just get another piece of the blog done today.  (We had decided to do a bit each day rather than plowing through to get caught up, but there is really nothing interesting to us in the Pacific Patter today.)

Special thanks to Fran and her copious comments.

Keep writing in our guest book as we love to hear from you.

Love,

L&T

P.S.  Remember when I said that the cashews that are eaten in Cambodia are not the same ones we eat…..well I stand corrected.  One cashew from one fruit is why they are so expensive for us to buy.  We bought some fresh from the farm and they are delicious.  I’ll correct it in the blog soon.

March 18, 2008

Phnom Penh for Sihanoukville, Cambodia and Ko Samui, Thailand are in!

Getting caught up now that we have three sea days before we are off to the Taj Mahal and Agra.  It’s overcast today so we may just get another piece of the blog done today.  (We had decided to do a bit each day rather than plowing through to get caught up, but there is really nothing interesting to us in the Pacific Patter today.)

Special thanks to Fran and her copious comments.

Keep writing in our guest book as we love to hear from you.

Love,

L&T

P.S.  Remember when I said that the cashews that are eaten in Cambodia are not the same ones we eat…..well I stand corrected.  One cashew from one fruit is why they are so expensive for us to buy.  We bought some fresh from the farm and they are delicious.  I’ll correct it in the blog soon.

Thanks again for your emails.  We really enjoy seeing them and it keeps us in touch.

As a child of the 60's/70's I never thought I would visit Vietnam......

Tim's got a bit of the flu so we are going to miss Bangkok tomorrow.  The doctor has quarantined him and put him on penicillin (sp) and expect a full recovery by Ko Samui (day after tomorrow)

Lynn:  got your message and will include our room picture with the next blog

Love L&T

China was fabulous and every stop is just better and better.

Glad to hear from all of you in the Guestbook.  I have been working on a reply for all of your questions and it will be ready in about a week.  We are off to Angor Wat in Cambodia tomorrow.  We will be in Ho Chi Min City by 8am tomorrow.  This whole trip is still surreal to me, we are loving it!  And missing you...

Love, L&T

So Kagoshima is in!

We are currently in the East China Sea on route to Shanghi in the morning.

Fron there we are on our 3 day overland land to Bejing and the Great Wall Of China.

How cool is that!!!

We will talk to you all in about 4 days!

Please keep the comment coming we are really enjoying hearing from everyone.

Love L&T

Nice to hear from Fran and Len.

Chantel:  Yes Linda does have excellent ponytails and two of them.  Gillian and Linley will be very impressed that Nani now has them.

Rough seas for the last two days getting us late into Kagoshima.  Hope we can still manage our tour.

Talk to you soon!

Love L&T

We love hearing from all of you.  Keep the comments coming...

Just to answer a few questions...

Chantel:  Tim bought me amethyst earrings, necklace and a ring.  Lovely.

Trevor:  Glad you like those boots.  And yes we do go to the beach every time we are in port.  We just don't have the space in the blog for those pictures.  When we are not loading up the blog, we do lay by the pool and read an suntan.  We really like those days.

Dave:  Sorry gray is not a colour that is available in the southern hemisphere.  You do though have to put Chuuk on your dream dive list with all the wartime wrecks right in the harbour.  You must stay at The Blue Lagoon as it is the only safe place to stay in Chuuk.  The divers on our ship came back from their day of diving with glazed eyes and mumbling bah, bah, bah.  They seem ok now though.

Mike and Diane, et. al.:  How is the running going?  We had our 7 miler on Sunday past and was it exciting.  Waves were in the 12 - 15 foot range.  Sometimes it was uphill and the next second it was downhill.  Very challenging to walk but no running.  I think we are using muscles just walking that we have never used before.

Our highlight of the week were two 5 minute phone calls to our favourite families.  How nice to hear everyone's voices.

Love to you all.  L&T

P.S.  There are still some of you we have not heard from???!!!!!

It is in!

As we approach the equator again, it is getting warmer and muggier.  Too bad eh!

To Dave and Lynn (or anybody else)  We will be in Tuscany from May 4-16 and would welcome you to join us!

Love L&T

It's in.  Enjoy!

We are at Chuuk tomorrow.

Love always,

L&T

We are back from Australia and have spent the last two days loading the blog.  Rabaul, Papua New Guinea will be in tomorrow.

Love hearing from all of you.

L&T

1. We have removed the password so that now you do not need it to view our blog. You can access our blog straight from the tangatanga.com front page. So let all your friends and relatives know.
2. Mom – Please check out the Galapagos pictures as there is a belated birthday surprise for you there.
3. Welcome to Scott O’Brien, son of Patsy and Dale, our shipmates and friends.
4. We will be out of touch for 5 days while we travel in Australia and to Ayers Rock. You can expect a large addition to the blog after.
5. Leona and Jen Fayant….are you having trouble with the blog or the guestbook or have you just fallen off of the face of the earth?
6. Get Well wishes to Dave Smith.

We have just changed course for Cyclone Jean.  We are sailing 400 miles out of our way to avoid her.  We are rockin and rollin and it's kind of fun.  Captain assures us we will be out of her way by dinner time.  No seasickness just bouncing off the walls and running into people, which is a good way to meet new friends.

Welcome to Stan and Sylvia and a rewelcome to Little Mikey. (Who has been a member all along but is not that good on his computer.)  The pass code is "090107" and you use it after you click on the invitation at the bottom of this email.

If you know of anyone else who may be interested, just pass along their email and we will add them to the list.

Ciao  L&T

P.S.  Roratonga added to blog tomorrow, weather permitting  

Please use the guste book we love hearing from everyone.

For Jake and Kathy and Clay you will have a lnik at the bottom of this email to access the blog and the pass is 090108  Hope you enjoy and look forward to hearing from you

Tim

Still learning this program and made some major learning in the last few days.  Added a few flags for Dave, his request.

We have four days at sea now while we approach the Easter Islands so you will find more news from Chile after January 27.

To Rachel:  Just added you to our mailing list.  You will need the password to access our blog and it is "090107".  Hope to hear from you soon in our guestbook or by email.

Love, L&T

Abit excited but not really yet.  I don't think reality has really sunk in yet.  We depart the Edmonton airport at 6:30AM tomorrow morning so we have to be there (YUCK) at 4:30AM. 

This is the first of many little notes you may enjoy from us while we journey the world.

Your password to enter our blog is "090107".

Probably blog (correct terminology??) you in a week or so and of cousre you can do the same.

Love L&T

try this again to Diane

As of December 21, 2007.....19 more sleeps!