Our tour guide picked us up at our hotel Friday morning for our 3+ hour journey to Ha Long Bay. And what a journey that was! Just getting out of town alone was insane, dodging all of the locals on their motorbikes. It was amazing to see all the villages and rice paddies along the way (we have a new appreciation of rice, for sure!). It seems the thing to do if you are not working out in the rice paddies, is to set up shop under your “house” and sit…and wait for a customer. There was LOTS of sitting (no reading, no talking, no nothing)! Diane doesn’t think she’d be able to do it, as she would miss her TIVO too much. So, we were about an hour in and I saw my first dead
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