So I wound up heading back to Siam Reap. Why not right? It is just a 5 hour bus ride for $5. I had a much better time there this time than last actually. I did some things that I guess maybe are not as popular versus going for just Angkor Wat. I went along with three Cambodian girls and one Loation girl. They are the same ones that gave me a ride from Sihanoukville after my bike got stolen. It is interesting because they are like half local. One of the Loation and two of the Cambdian girls live in [View Full Entry]

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So I went back to a nice beautiful beach and was relaxing for a few days without a care in the world...then the bomb dropped. The first really shitty thing happened on my trip. My bike was stolen last night. I parked it in front of a beach restaurant in Shanoukville, there was a lock around the tire and everything, and when I came out around 10:30pm the bike was gone. I talked to the tuk tuk guys and the moto guys but they were useless. It really sucks because I know they saw who took it. They were right near [View Full Entry]

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Well I had, as always, a few more interesting experiences before I leave Vietnam. Tomorrow I head back to Cambodia to enjoy some beach time. I have been quite disappointed in the beaches in Vietnam and the water at the beaches I have been to has been way to cold for swimming, at least from my Floridan perspectives. So the other day I am sitting at a traffic light and this asshole in the car next to me drives over my foot. Luckily enough I was actually wearing shoes that day and he just caught the edge so it was just [View Full Entry]

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So we head down to this girls home town. A province called . She did not tell her family that she was coming or that she was bringing a foreigner. So as you can imagine there was a bit of a commotion when we arrived. At first were quite stand offfish and not very friendly. She explained to me that they were worried I was her boyfriend. She explained to them that this was not the case, but they still did not seem very happy. I continue to say she explained because they do not speak any english and my Vietnamese [View Full Entry]

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We figured we had to do at least one tourist thing in Vietnam while Chuck was here. We decided to do the Cu Chi Tunnels and the caodai temple. The Cu Chi tunnels are the underground tunnels the Vietcong used to escape from the b-52 bombs and sneak up into the U.S. Army camps and set traps. The people wound up living underground and their is a complex network of tunnels about 200 or more kilometers or tunnels. They let you go underground and crawl through these tight tunnels about 20 feet undergound. Most who know me know how much I [View Full Entry]

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This blog is for all the fans of "What the Hell is Brett Eating Now?" So Chuck and I head back to Saigon and we decide it si time to have some advnetures in food. Chuck is like me and will try just about anything. It was great in the couple of plaes with english menus where we could pick weird stuff to eat. The game is not quite as much fun when the whole menu is in Vietnamese and you pick something, but then can't figure out what you ate. It is better if you at least know what you [View Full Entry]

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So we headed from Long Hai up Mui Ne. We had quite a bit of an adveture getting there as we did not take the main road. We took a small coastal road and went the wrong way quite a few times. I nailed a chicken on the way up as well, but he seemed pretty unfazed by it. We also learned that asking directions is just a bad idea here. They have no clue where you want to guy, but they really want to help so they try. We even had a few people hop on their bike and has [View Full Entry]

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So we find ourselevs in local vacation spot called Long Hai. It is a place where Vietnamiese people from Saigon go on holiday. There was not really much going on there so we decided to leave after one day, but as always there was an adventure or two to be had. We go wandering looking for dinner around appearantly everything closes very early in Long Hai. We did get lucky enough to find a party of 110 immigartion officers who invited us to join the festivities. It was great fun. They kept filling our glasses with Heineken and giving us grilled [View Full Entry]

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So arriving in Vietnam was definitely a bit of an adventure. Our agency that issued us our vietnamiese visas said that we could bring a credit card to pay for the visa on arrival. Appearantly that was not the case. Chuck also did not have a passport photo. We wound up having a guard escort us through immigration where the immigration guy proceeded to ask Chuck for his hat for letting us through without the correct documents in order. After Chuck took it off and showed it to him he saw how dirty it was and called Chuck lazy. I am [View Full Entry]

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We have a nice quick flight to an island called Palawan. Nothing better than an hour long flight. Quick, easy, and you get somewhere completely different. Our first night there we stayed in Puerto Princessa. That place is not that cool. Some people use it for a jumping off point for day trips, but everything interesting is at least 2 hours away. We went island hopping the day next day and it was not that great the islands were just so so. The good thing was going to the market and buying shrimp, chicken, and pork and BBQ an awesome dinner [View Full Entry]

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