Mom says that she is convinced that the men have smaller waists than one of her thighs. We took the Victoria Express Train to Sapa last night. We all slept really well, in spite of the cramped quarters. The drive up to Sapa was stunning and a good indicator of how beautiful Vietnam can be. The terraces carved into the sides of the mountains are amazing and disappear into the mountain tops. The Victoria Hotel is very nice and our room is the biggest hotel room we have ever stayed in. We hired a tour guide from Mountain View Hotel and [View Full Entry]

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After 27 very long hours of travelling we have arrived in Hanoi. The airport had us nicely fooled into thinking that all of the signs here in Asia would be catering to our english-speaking ways. The workers at the airport don't always know as much english as we would have liked, so loosing our only checked bag was a small problem. Fortunately we found a nice young english speaking lady who was very concerned on our behalf and promised that she would do everything she could to find our allusive bag (filled with all of the goodies for the Cambodian [View Full Entry]

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