....a shopping intervention. Family and friends please check in with the various traveler you are associated with and gently ask them how they are doing, what's been going on, and most importantly, what they have been buying. I thought the purse buying binge we went on in Hanoi was bad but this here in beautiful Hoi An is a new level. Hoi An is known for its streets that are lined with tailor shops who can literally court you ("Hello! You want to buy?"), measure you (they thankfully speak these numbers in Vietnamese) and hand you back a goreous dress, winter coat, or pair of pants (the list goes on) in about 12 hours later. Although we have reined ourselves in after a few days of furious shopping (seriously we have, well, sort of), you could
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