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I am 43 and live with my family in Northern Virginia, VA, USA (near Washington, DC). In the 1990s, my wife Debbie Hill (age unknown) and I adopted three children from three different countries. Our children are Nam, 16, from Vietnam; Rachel, 14, from Sri Lanka; and Lydia, 9, from India. In the summer of 2007, we are visiting their birth countries for a week+ each, and have side visits with friends in Spain and Australia on each end of the trip. We will take the unusual family summer vacation of completely circling the globe. This trip is meant to be cultural and educational, and not an attempt to connect with blood relatives. Here we are on our front porch--still smiling and speaking to each other--a few days before the trip.
Joined on: June 18th 2007
Last Login: August 21st 2008
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Last Login: August 21st 2008
Blog Entries: 27
Photos: 137
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We are safely back in Arlington after catching back-to-back red-eye flights (Brisbane to L.A. and L.A. to BWI). We are a little weary, but a much more worldly and we got here with all our luggage. Amazing! I did not have computer access while in Australia (the beaches were too nice anyway), and so I didn't know the Travel Blog site had crashed the day we left Vietnam. Most of my entries were lost, but can be recovered. It will just take some time and I'll attempt to do this over the next couple of days between opening 7 weeks of [View Full Entry]
One of many beaches
Byron Bay has many beautiful beachs, including this one seen from the light house.
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The Transit Lounge
Lydia makes the most of a table cloth I had in my carry-on as we hunker down for a night in the frigid economy transit lounge of Suvarnabhumi Airport.
HenryT - Henry Dunbar | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 8 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=197569] | 2007-08-31 14:07:46
Another leg of the trip comes to a close. We are in Nihn Binh. For tourists, it is mostly known as a stopping point to some of Vietnam's natural attractions, which we did over the last two days. We are heading to Hanoi to catch our flight in about 12 hours. This has been an eventful two weeks and we have much to process. Henry [View Full Entry]
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Well I liked HaLong Bay (dragon bay). I thought it was fun because we got to jump off the boat and we met alot of new people who were really nice. When we went to Sapa, we went on two hikes and the second one was the best because it was all muddy and when you're about to slip it was fun. We saw someone slip, she got her pants really dirty. Well it was a nice hotel in Sapa and we met lots of people who had blue hands because there is a plant that you boil for ten days [View Full Entry]
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The translator
Ms. Xuan works at the local bank and served as a translator for me and other Americans when we came in 1996. She is still there, but said the People's Committee stopped placing children from the ... [more]
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The Hard Sell in the Hill Country Asia » Vietnam » Sapa By HenryT July 24th 2007 Henry Dunbar We rode an overnight train into the Hill Country of Vietnam and spent two days in the regional hub of Sapa. Like Sri Lanka, it was beautiful and lush, only with rice paddies instead of tea bushes. One negative aspect is that the place has become a Class A tourist trap [View Full Entry]
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We spent our first day here touring the usual Hanoi sites. The most interesting was probably Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, where the revolutionary leader has been preserved since is death in 1969. (sorry, no pictures allowed) The irony is that he specifcally said that he wanted his resting place to be modest and without fuss. I now has a huge building and courtyards, with a changing of the guard ceremony, the whole works. The line to view his body streches for blocks most days, but moves along. We had to wait about half an hour. After that, the day was [View Full Entry]
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k so Hanoi i think is awesome cus everything is soo cheap. i've bought alot of things already. the food isnt bad either. but thai food was the best. i wish we stayed in Thailand longer. And yes Donna, there are pretty women here in Vietnam. I didnt expect it though. :) because in the travel guide book showed different pictures. We leave in a train tonite up to the mountains. we have to sleep in a train. o god. oh yeah we had to take trains in Sri Lanka and i hated it.but after we go to Hi Long Bay, [View Full Entry]
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We arrvied safe-and-sound from Sri Lanka. Posting just to let everyone know all is well and we are all in good health. This was just an overnight in transit. We did introduce the kids to Thai street food, which is amazingly good. Next up Vietnam. [View Full Entry]
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