After a two year travelblog-able hiatus, I'm back with a sidekick/wife. Noa and I shall be blogging events relevant and pointless, fascinating and rambling and all things in between. If I give her the password, anyways. We began with waiting for United to replace our plane due to electrical failure, delaying our 1PM departure until 2:30PM. Not a big deal, but it meant we would miss our connection from the Narita Airport to Ho Chi Minh City. Which I will refer to from now on as Saigon. But not in a bitter, damn-vc-won-the-war-and-then-went-and-became-capitalists-anyways kind of way. Not at all. Which meant that we got an airline-paid hotel stay after the 11 flight to Japan. Cool. I can't say I learned much in my 18 hours in Japan enough to make broad, sweeping cultural generalizations. I will
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