Today the craziness ends and tomorrow life should get back to normal…. Of sorts. Every year TET (New Year) brings this country to a stand still. The mass phycology around the holiday may be a part of whyVietnamseems to be so far behind others in the business word. In past blogs I have spoken of [...]
Frustration
suspension bridge I am seething with frustration and I feel at the moment I have to get it off my chest!! There are some things inVietnamthat make me so angry, I want to lash out!!! There are mostly stupid insignificant things but enough to send you over the edge….. HEY!! Don’t give me that look…. [...]
Painfull lesson
Every longhouse should have TV I am sitting in a budget hotel in Tuy Hoa nursing a painful leg. Normally I would stay in a nicer place but there is a festival going on and I arrived with my highland tour customers unaware….. Ahhhh so the adventure goes. Today I talk about Pain and luck.. [...]
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Eating Snake Mekong Style
Snake blood in a bottle To eat or not to eat snake for dinner?…. That is the question. Well………. why the heck not!! I have had snake on a number of occasions in a soup base but have been unable to eat because of the toughness of the skin. My buddy Hau was determined that [...]
Homestays Part 3
Lunch Anyone? In the past couple of years I have noted the presence of increasing numbers of young men that take pride in their looks and have no issue with public thoughts of how people will react to their effeminate mannerisms. The Vietnam version of lady boys are visible in most tourist areas as bar [...]
Mekong Homestay Part 1
A new place being built I arrived in Saigonat 11 pm and caught a taxi to a hotel that a friend reserved for me. This was a place that many expats rent monthly and I was a bit surprised at the state of the room. It was a decent set up with everything a person [...]
Mekong Homestays Prequil
Monks Carving The Mekong Delta has become one of my favorite places to travel, especially when heading places relatively unvisited by foreigners. I love the surprise and following interaction with local people that have never or rarely seen a foreigner. Recently, I just returned from such a trip. One evening, Nghia and Hau (my friends [...]
Highland Adventure or Disaster Part 3
Shook Shook Shhok Tic…….. Shook Shook Shhok Tic… complained the chain on my motorcycle as we left late for the second time. Oh!! Did I forget to mention that while the motorcycle was being looked at, I decided to make some adjustments to my chain. This is a big bike and there is no center [...]
Highland Adventure or Disaster part 2
Seafood A quick lunch and we were on our way. The trip started with a drive along a beautiful stretch of road departing Nha Trang to a fishing village where Chris and John had a walk around while we fueled the bikes in preparation for the long drive. The fish market had already closed, so [...]
A highland adventure or disaster?
Christine and John sent word that they would perhaps be interested in touring the Central Highlands on the back of motorcycles so into the shop Bossy went to have a new set of tires, new chain and modified sprocket for higher speed cruising. It should have been a simple enough task, but sometimes I forget [...]