Shanshan

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T202473.htm

We've been rerouted due to "super typhoon" Shanshan which was barelling down on southern Japan as we were leaving. Seven people have died on Kyushu island in Japan where the storm made landfall.

Instead of going to Quindao we will be heading straight for Hong Kong. We're heading as fast as we can, considering how rought the seas are, around the storm. Right now we're back tracking some eastward.

We will be departing Hong Kong as scheduled for Vietnam.

We're all safe, in good spirits, and enduring the pitching and rocking as best as we can.