Today was a fear factor day. Those of you who have followed my previous blogs know there is always something that makes you say "oh my god, did she really do that". Just so you aren't disappointed, I have done it again. It started innocently enough. We were invited to a lovely dinner with Mr. Longs family here in Saigon. We were excited. There was a wee communication barrier as they speak no english and well, we don't get Vietnamese. Luckly we had 2 family friends join us who spoke a wee bit of english. Made it interesting and fun. Kristy [View Full Entry]

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So...we got a bus across from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh city, which everyone else actually calls Saigon. First impressions...everywhere is the sight and sounds of motorbikes: How to ride a motorbike in Saigon... Up the wrong side of the street, Honking your horn as much as possible, Reversing onto the pavements, Riding on the pavements, With your child on the front, With as much produce as you can squeeze on, Swerving round every other motorbike, Handlebar to handlebar at the lights, When at a junction...no need to stop - just toot, to let others know you're coming throug [View Full Entry]

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Afraid still no photos. We'll get them up soon as a dang computer will let us. Made it in to Vietnam now. Just spent the day walking around Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon). Off to check out some Viet cong tunnels tomorrow morning, then the beach, four hours bus drive away in the afternoon where we'll stay for two days before going back to Cambodia and then Thailand. All busy. Saigon is fairly nuts, but in a good way, of course. Hot, dirty, crazy motorbike drivers. Thousands of them. Crossing the road you just have to walk out in to [View Full Entry]

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Amazing how time flies when you are having fun! It is Thursday here and at 11pm tonight I will be here for one week! It is hard to believe. I have been having a lot of fun seeing the sights and trying new food every day. This past week I bought some banh mi and banh bao from a street vendor. It was cheap and very good! I have been eating and drinking pretty much anything I want. People warned me I would be having the side effects, but nothing yet. There is one food here I will not try… [View Full Entry]

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Mui Ne Was such a lovely place we spent four nights relaxing and taking small day trips to exciting places around the small town. Mui Ne has its own micro climate so we enjoyed good weather every day. One of the highlights was hiring a motorbike for a day and driving along the coast, it was beautiful we also made it to the giant sand dunes something Mui Ne is famous for. Little kids on the side of the road were trying to give us plastic boards to slide down but we refused, one little girl was so cute and we [View Full Entry]

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It has been a couple days since I have updated everyone. The last time I wrote it was about my Friday night. This will be about my weekend. I will start off by saying it was pretty low key in as I did not go to any bars or clubs. I know that will disappoint some of you back home. I will go soon enough don’t worry. On Saturday I got up and had my usual breakfast here at the hotel. I hung out here until about lunch time when my friend Tram came to pick me up. We were going [View Full Entry]

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We made it here easily the board crossing was not a fuss although I was freaking out because I left one of my bags on the bus and everyone else brought theirs with them. If I wasn’t going to get in trouble I was scared that someone was going to plant drugs in my bag and say "whose bag is this". Think I’ve been watching too many scary movies either way I’ll never leave my bag again. "Where are all the tuk tuks?" Is the first thing I say before we even get off the bus. Although I was sick of [View Full Entry]

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It was tough to leave Hoi An so quickly. It had become a very restful city...the weather was predictable...each day around 1:00 pm, it would rain like Hell for awhile then stop. It was a way to tell time so you didn't have to carry your watch. But as comes with travel, the time to move on was at hand. It was surprisingly easy...taxi to DaNang then fly down the coast to Nha Trang and a whole new area and mentality. The flight down the coast was routine and uneventful until the approach to the city when turbulence seemed a little [View Full Entry]

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It was Friday night, my first real night in Saigon. After my exciting day of exploring and riding on a motorbike for the first time I took a nice cool shower and got ready. I headed out at about 9:30pm not knowing what to expect. I thought the streets were crazy during the day, they didn’t compare to a weekend night. Everyone was cruising the city, street vendors were everywhere, bars and small beer gardens packed full of people. Before settling on a place I walked around a bit just to take things in. It wasn’t 5 minutes of walking around [View Full Entry]

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My long journey (27 hours) to Viet Nam started in Wichita, Kansas, USA. September 2nd I left home and flew to Denver, Colorado then to San Francisco, California. With less than an hour for my connection I ran to the international terminal just in time to board the plane. It was huge, a Boeing 747!! Lots of room on the inside until I sat down..... wow coach seats are so tiny!! Luckily the flight was only 1/2 full. I got the whole row to myself!! With 14 hours of airtime to my next connection in Hong Kong, China, the extra room [View Full Entry]

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