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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August 21st, 2005
As I was reading about Vietnam history in my room yesterday morning (waiting for Jamie to wake up), this nice man named Phuoc (pronounced...well, you can guess) suddenly appeared in m...
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August 20th, 2005
Just in case you don't speak Vietnamese, "xao ba co" roughly translates to "you lie like a grandmother." Why would I know this? Because it was what Jamie (and then...
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August 19th, 2005
Helloooo Ho Chi Minh City (also called Saigon). Jamie and I arrived around 4 and decided to splurge and stay at the famous Rex hotel (splurge here meaning about th...
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