Before sharing my North Vietnamese tales I thought it prudent to share a little discovery we made upon leaving our beloved motorbike drivers Vu & Vu. Warning, if you're under the age of 10 perhaps skip this paragraph. At the conclusion of our motorbike tour of central Vietnam Jenna and I called our friend Ryan back in Saigon (see previous entry for a reminder) to inform him of our whirlwind adventures. Upon telling him about "Double Vu" he promptly interrupted our tales and asked for clarification on our pronunciation of Vu. Now, admittedly we are no geniuses when it comes to the difficult pronunciations inherent to the Vietnamese language, but our drivers introduced themselves as "Vu" specifying that pronunciation, so we had little cause to believe we could be saying anything incorrectly. Ummm, not so much.
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