The ship was docked at the pier of Phu My, Vietnam 2020/Carlos Pueblo

The ship was docked at the pier of Phu My, Vietnam 2020/Carlos Pueblo

Phu My is not on my old Rand McNally map, is also a new container port for export. It is very closed to the old Saigon. There are two small strips of stores across a small ditch of the bay water, one for the eatery, small dishes of fried fish, squid, chicken drum, and vegetable, etc. A plate is costed for US$1.00. Another strip is for some souvenir sweat shirts, baseball caps, low budget items, etc. There is also another mobile strip unit for clothes inside the pier. We did inspect all three of them quickly and return to the ship eventually. It takes a while for this war torn nation to get ready for cruise style tourism.

We sat at the Cafe to watch uniform crew members shopping at the mobile unit, actually is a tent. We saw Lovely and her husband. She is the restaurant manager of Le Bistro and her husband is also on another assignment whom is not formally introduced to us.

Alan & Mary Hunt are from Seabrook, Texas near Clear Lake City, Houston. They had a plan to search his formal Vietnamese partner during the War. He has tried to locate him in vein during these years. Saigon trip takes about eight hours on excursion. I didn't see them after that day of conversation. I did find the Kanji for Joshua, their grandson's name. I'll send an e-mail to them.

A dinner with officers is held on every route for platinum plus latitude member. The officer was one of the ship engineer. He was on this ship when I was in San Juan, Porto Rico on Thanksgiving 2018. I was at a small inn waiting for a cheaper flight back to Houston and ran into a family got bumped off Jade due to machine failure. He remembered it and described how the ship made it to Miami with her own power. Another couple are from the UK. We have run into each other at least one time in Alaska trip recently.