September 6th, 2005
A recap of the past 2 weeks:
8/19 Flew from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City
8/21 Drove to Mui Ne
8/23 Back to Ho Chi Minh
8/24 Day trip to Cu Chi Tunnels
8/25 Day on the Mekong...
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September 6th, 2005
Oy. I spent the last 24 hours in Bangkok sorting through roughly 3,000 pictures from the past 2 weeks (Jamie's and mine combined). I've posted 130 or so: lots of scenery, lots of p...
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September 4th, 2005
My last day:
Ho. As in Ho Chi Minh. We endured a ridiculously long line in awful humidity to see his dead body preserved. I think it was especially crowded because of Nat...
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September 3rd, 2005
Today was my last, and possibly my favorite, excursion in Vietnam. Jamie and I spent all day in Halong Bay (3 hours northeast of Hanoi) on a private boat arranged for us by ...
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September 2nd, 2005
It's not just any ol' day back in Hanoi. The 2nd of September in Vietnam is like our 4th of July. America recently celebrated 229 years of independence, here they're celebrating...
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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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