Vietnam

Reunification Day in Saigon…

May 1, 2012 Ok, let’s try again. I had finished writing this entire post, when the application shut down, and I lost everything! I need to remember to save periodically! Anyway, yesterday was the 37th anniversary of the reunification of North and South Vietnam, the day which marked the end...
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Weekend in Saigon…

April 30, 2012 I had a great weekend in Saigon, hanging out with my friend, Sue. We hooked up on Saturday afternoon, when I found out her plane from Hong Kong had been significantly delayed, getting in at 5:30am. We then proceeded to run around town picking up stuff for...
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Arrived in Saigon…

I arrived in Saigon last night (or Ho Chi Minh City as it is also known). My plane from NYC to Hong Kong was delayed several times, making my connection tighter and tighter (about 15-20 minutes by the time we landed in Hong Kong). But there were enough people on...
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>Day 36. Sa Pa to Hanoi.

>I arrived back in Hanoi at 5:30am this morning. My bunk mates last night were a couple from Vail, Colorado and a young gentleman from Kyoto, Japan, who is now living in Hanoi. He was quite concerned about my relatives in Tokyo! Mike, kai and natsu, i hope you are...
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>Day 33. Sa Pa

>(posted on day 34)I checked into my “luxury” train to Sa Pa at 9:00 last night. And found out that “luxury” meant sharing a four person cabin. I guess the non-luxury is regular train seats? As I waited for my other three bunk mates, I wondered who I’d be sleeping...
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>Day 31. Saigon (part 3)

>(posted day 33, yippee, part 2 posted after much coaxing….here goes with part 3 of day 31) Walking around, seeing the difference in dress and the decrease in bicycles, etc., I felt very lucky to have been to a lot of countries, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Uganda, Morocco,...
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