Today I was planning on taking part of the morning to check online for options to go to Ha Long bay and to call Igor to ask him about some comments he left concerning traveling Laos and Cambodia. Before doing that we had a somewhat American breakfast with eggs and …
Read More
Yesterday morning I was greeted by a large spider on the floor of my hotel room. Mai showed up shortly afterwards and brought me back to their house where we ate and talked and showered.
We eat frequently here, though not a lot. There are 8 females in this house …
Read More
Tonight I am staying near Tien's house in a $4 hotel room with no toilet seat and a dirty bidet nozzle.
I haven't been in Saigon one day yet and I already know the one word that would sum it up. Scooters. It's like everything here is a scooter. I see people doing everything possible with them, from selling corn to hauling TV's 4 at a time. It's actually really really …
Read More
I woke up on a mattress in Saigon this morning, a rooster crowing outside the window and a lizard crawling up the wall.
I decided to throw caution to the windo and went against what everybodytold me to do: be safe. I jumped on a scooter with Tam and headed …
Read More