Wow was yesterday a long but glorious day. After nearly eight hours of driving and five hours on a boat, we slept incredibly hard last night. I woke up before Jenn and snuck out to get a quick run in, in the beautiful gym here at the JW Marriott. One quick note on the gym. When you walk in its a cool 70 degrees but the treadmills are right up against the floor to ceiling glass which means its 10-degrees warmer on them making my run this morning a tad more difficult.

For each stop on the trip, there’s one tour or destination that we had in mind as a driving force for why we chose to go to that country. Today is that sort of day in Vietnam. One of the places both Jenn and I have always wanted to visit is Halong Bay. We booked a group tour (more on that in a bit) to take us from Hanoi to Halong Bay which is 186kms away or 111 miles from our hotel.

Today will be a short write up as its one of many transit days coming up. Unlike our flight into Hong Kong, today we didn’t have an early morning flight. Instead we woke up at a leisurely 7 AM on our own. I went for a run and Jenn got ready for the day. When I got back from my run I took and a shower and Jenn got our last Starbucks run in Hong Kong. It sure has been nice to have it around the corner from us.