August 31st, 2005
Right after I finished writing about eating dog, we hopped on the night train to Sapa, one of the mountain provinces in the far north. The town has made its way onto the tourist map for...
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August 30th, 2005
It's a fact: one of America's favorite pets is one of Vietnam's unique foods. I had to try it...
Long (pronounced "Lome"), a friend of Jamie's family, took me to the loca...
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August 29th, 2005
I thought I would try
something fun and different:
some Hanoi haikus...
Woken up at 9
for breakfast with Jamie's folks -
arrived late last night.
His dad: professor.
...
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August 28th, 2005
Another day on the go. A car and a driver and off we went, leaving at 9 and getting back around 6.
There were 2 main attractions. The first were the "razor mountains...
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August 27th, 2005
We changed our plane tickets yesterday to have another day in Hue. We got a driver (and car) and a guide to take us on Highway 1, a road stretching the entire length of...
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August 26th, 2005
The sound of an alarm clock is officially my least favorite sound. At 3:30 this morning we woke up to catch a 6 o'clock flight to Hue, a central city located near the 1...
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August 25th, 2005
Yesterday the Cu Chi tunnels (north of Ho Chi Minh), today the Mekong River (south). Mr Hiep is a very busy man and unfortunately couldn't take another day to show...
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August 24th, 2005
Helping a lady make rice paper, walking through a rubber tree plantation, crawling through tunnels used during the Vietnam War, drinking snake wine, shooting an M-...
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August 23rd, 2005
You'd think that after the first night I would have gotten used to sleeping within a canopy bug net. I was woken up last night from one of its thin mesh walls caressing my cheek (it w...
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August 22nd, 2005
I wrote in my journal earlier today: "I smell like dead shrimp and sun lotion, and have dirt plastered to sweat all over my body. It was so worth it."
Although my scooter and I got...
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