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Date: 30th September 2010
Haha yeah, poor me! Thankfully I'm much better now :)
From Blog: Back to the Old House
Haha yeah, poor me! Thankfully I'm much better now :)
From Blog: Back to the Old House
Date: 8th May 2010
I enjoyed your Vietnam post. It made me want to go there. My blog is looking for travel photos and shorts stories about traveling abroad. If you have any time, email us some at dirtyhippiesblog@gmail.com or check us out at dirty-hippies.blogspot.com Continued fun on your travels, Eric
From Blog: American Grass
I enjoyed your Vietnam post. It made me want to go there. My blog is looking for travel photos and shorts stories about traveling abroad. If you have any time, email us some at dirtyhippiesblog@gmail.com or check us out at dirty-hippies.blogspot.com Continued fun on your travels, Eric
From Blog: American Grass
Date: 29th March 2010
Hi Brandon
I'm very pleased you enjoy reading about my travels, I enjoy writing about them. I really loved my time in Vietnam, which was also about 30 days, but I'm no longer there, I'm back home now in England. I find Vietnam's cities, landscapes and history very interesting and I think your trip back home with your family will be lots of fun :). I will try to give you any advice I can about the places I visited and hopefully some of my future posts will be of some use to you. Rich
From Blog: Rock Wonder in the Sky: An Island Adventure in Descending Dragon Bay
Hi Brandon
I'm very pleased you enjoy reading about my travels, I enjoy writing about them. I really loved my time in Vietnam, which was also about 30 days, but I'm no longer there, I'm back home now in England. I find Vietnam's cities, landscapes and history very interesting and I think your trip back home with your family will be lots of fun :). I will try to give you any advice I can about the places I visited and hopefully some of my future posts will be of some use to you. Rich
From Blog: Rock Wonder in the Sky: An Island Adventure in Descending Dragon Bay
Date: 25th March 2010
Enjoying your BLOG
Hi, I enjoy very much reading your BLOGs...they are very detail and informative. I am a Vietnamese living in Canada, and will be visiting Viet Nam this summer with my family for about a month, after 30 years being away !!! I left Viet Nam when I was thirteen, and on this trip back, I plan to visit Viet Nam from South to North : Saigon, Mekong river, Phan Thiet/Mui Ne, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Da Nang/Hoi An, Hue, Ha Noi, Hai Phong/Ha Long Bay, so I have been reading up on people's travel BLOGs to plan for the trip. Nha Trang was my old home town, and I have been at Sai Gon, and Phan Thiet before, but I have never been to the north of Viet Nam due to the war at that time, so I found you BLOGs very helpful when I travel north this summer, also, I am very impressed that you can name the locations in Viet Nam the way they are written in Vietnamese (at first I thought you are Vietnamese !!!)...I didn't see you mention 'Tam Coc', it's 'Ha Long Bay on Land' : so if you like Ha Long bay, I think you will also like this one. In Viet Nam, some locations are famous for certain types of food, If you are still in Ha Noi, try 'Bun Cha Ca', Hue is famous for 'Bun Bo Hue', 'Banh Nam', and 'Banh Beo', Nha Trang is famous for 'Nem Nuong' and 'Banh Mi', Phan Thiet is famous for 'Banh Xeo' (there is a whole street selling just 'Banh Xeo')...though these dishes are also generally available in many other cities in Vietnam, there are variations, and they are not as good. I hope you enjoy the rest of your travels in Viet Nam, and hope you will find Viet Nam a very diversed and interesting country to travel. If you have any question for me, please do not hesitate to ask, and I will try my best to answer them, and I hope that I can also ask you for some advices when you finish your Viet Nam's travel.
From Blog: Rock Wonder in the Sky: An Island Adventure in Descending Dragon Bay
Enjoying your BLOG
Hi, I enjoy very much reading your BLOGs...they are very detail and informative. I am a Vietnamese living in Canada, and will be visiting Viet Nam this summer with my family for about a month, after 30 years being away !!! I left Viet Nam when I was thirteen, and on this trip back, I plan to visit Viet Nam from South to North : Saigon, Mekong river, Phan Thiet/Mui Ne, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Da Nang/Hoi An, Hue, Ha Noi, Hai Phong/Ha Long Bay, so I have been reading up on people's travel BLOGs to plan for the trip. Nha Trang was my old home town, and I have been at Sai Gon, and Phan Thiet before, but I have never been to the north of Viet Nam due to the war at that time, so I found you BLOGs very helpful when I travel north this summer, also, I am very impressed that you can name the locations in Viet Nam the way they are written in Vietnamese (at first I thought you are Vietnamese !!!)...I didn't see you mention 'Tam Coc', it's 'Ha Long Bay on Land' : so if you like Ha Long bay, I think you will also like this one. In Viet Nam, some locations are famous for certain types of food, If you are still in Ha Noi, try 'Bun Cha Ca', Hue is famous for 'Bun Bo Hue', 'Banh Nam', and 'Banh Beo', Nha Trang is famous for 'Nem Nuong' and 'Banh Mi', Phan Thiet is famous for 'Banh Xeo' (there is a whole street selling just 'Banh Xeo')...though these dishes are also generally available in many other cities in Vietnam, there are variations, and they are not as good. I hope you enjoy the rest of your travels in Viet Nam, and hope you will find Viet Nam a very diversed and interesting country to travel. If you have any question for me, please do not hesitate to ask, and I will try my best to answer them, and I hope that I can also ask you for some advices when you finish your Viet Nam's travel.
From Blog: Rock Wonder in the Sky: An Island Adventure in Descending Dragon Bay
Date: 17th November 2009
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Do you want to know more about lijiang? Ask Vilin! haha~~
From Blog: The Eight Hundred Year Old Nakhi Maze
lijiang
Do you want to know more about lijiang? Ask Vilin! haha~~
From Blog: The Eight Hundred Year Old Nakhi Maze
Date: 17th November 2009
happy travel
Hi R and C, this travel is so amazing! I heard you are in Vienna now. Are you enjoying the music now? haha~ Shanghai is very cold now. Even could snow. Hope you guys enjoy more about the travel, and see you guy next march!!!
From Blog: Furnace to Furnace: Ferry Up The Yangtze
happy travel
Hi R and C, this travel is so amazing! I heard you are in Vienna now. Are you enjoying the music now? haha~ Shanghai is very cold now. Even could snow. Hope you guys enjoy more about the travel, and see you guy next march!!!
From Blog: Furnace to Furnace: Ferry Up The Yangtze
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Where I intend to go soon 
Where I have visited 
Where I have lived 
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the leper colony near Qui Nhon - a Christmas party
It was during the Christmas season in 1970 when our Catholic chaplin asked if any of the men in my combat artillary unit would like to help throw a party for the orphans at the Leper Colony near Qui Nhon. We were the 7/15th Field Artillary US Army near Phu Cat north of the colony. I remember the place well. We had a convoy of about 7 vehicles bringing food and gifts for the children. The Padre scrounged up huge tins of ice cream and the childresn were really overjoyed. The place was run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, a French order. It was a soul moving experience.
From Blog: The Hunt for Leprosy Village