Travel Archives - Alexis McBride

February 24, 2025

Singapore Air: Middle Seat Quickly Became a Window Seat with a Lively Conversation Companion: A Considered Complementary Review of my Diamond Singapore Orchard Hilton Honors Experience Featuring the Toto Toilet; Meeting Many Old Treasured Acquaintances; Smooth Luxurious Trip to Singapore Hilton; Home to Confusion and Possible Tsunami Ending in a Rainbow; You Get What You Pay For Has New Meaning

I am now on my way back to Penang. First let me say this. I was driven to the airport in a taxi arranged by the Hilton Honors staff. It was incredible and you will…

February 22, 2025

Discovering The Truth in Al Jazeera; The Four Reasons Why Americans Abandoned Democracy; Having a Perspective So Important to Peace of Mind; Photos of Breakfast Food and Experimental Photography; Love Can Conquer All

I am in Singapore with an hour to spare because my next Apple class is an hour away. I am dressed, breakfasted, WhatsApped my driver and administrative assistant confirming my return on Sunday. Laughingly texted…

July 18, 2024

Best Sixty Days Ever; Loving this Penang; Walking a Tightrope But Finally Reaching Safety; Having a New Man in my Life Brings Joy; I Prefer Adam; Photos of a Spectacular Sunrise, a Vibrant Me, Reel Saying Hello Malaysia

Dateline: July 15, 2024 Realized suddenly, and with a start, that I have been in Malaysia, in Penang for sixty days today, two whole months. More precisely and accurately I have been in Lexis Suites…

December 26, 2023

A Bahrain Boxing Day; Exposé Delayed; Learn that Yawning is Contagious; Morning Walk Becomes Aerobics Instruction and Golf Cart with Chauffer; Conversation with Burgeoning Blogger; Meeting Another From Bahrain; Reels of Playground and Boycotting for Palestine; View From My Window and City View

Woke early and offered my 4:57 Fajr prayer. Examined comments made by new friends on Instagram, while sipping espresso coffee. Today is the day after Christmas – a nothing day in the USA but a…

December 22, 2023

Leaving the Womb of the Medina Oberio Hotel; Caesarian Explored; Obedience Defined, Explained and Contrasted; A Replay of My December 25, 2022 Blog; Two Reels, One Also on Instagram

I leave this womb tomorrow. Since it is planned it must be a a Caesarian section. Hahaha!!! The origins of that word are fascinating, something unknown until a few minutes ago. Dates from the early…

September 24, 2023

Saudis Know How to Do Things; An Absolutely Unbelievable Saudi National Day: Saudi Facts, Saudi Fun and Constitution Compared to Canadian and US Versions; In My Life; Boisterous and a Bedouin Tent Reel; Photos of Celebrants and a Camel and His Caretaker

I constantly am shaking my head in sheer wonderment. Me: Those Saudi’s know how to do things!! Alter Ego: What do you mean? Me: Absolutely everything they do. If is totally mind boggling! Entirely!!! Alter…

August 28, 2023

New Revised About Me; The Final Edition

The About Me section of this blog has been ‘revised’ several times. It is time to do it again, as again circumstances have changed. Not only the circumstances but the Who I Am Has Changed. I am…

February 3, 2021

No Need to Develop Decorum; An Eligible Husband Found and Then Lost; Decorum and Impropriety Defined; A Surprise Call from a Valued Caller; A Joke About Revenge; Walking Away When Duped; The Attack of the Clothes Moths

These last three or four days have been filled with momentous events. Most of them quite horrible, they will be slowly explained. But, in the long run, everything has turned out Ok – I am…