Ah, Yes. The Vietnam War. That’s the one where the US goes in, a lot of people are confused as to the reasons why, there is a war, and then the US comes home. Everyone thinks there are Soviets but no one seems to be able to find one. There is long hiking trail called [...]
Foodie Friday: Pho
November 12, 2010 By 9 Comments
F-O. F-Uh. F-uoh. It took a while to get down the actual Vietnamese pronunciation of Pho, but thankfully I did because I want to order it from every street vendor I see. Unfortunately, actually pronouncing Pho isn’t so easy and we spent one evening at the reception desk of our hotel repeating the name of [...]
Adorning Ourselves for the Afterlife
November 11, 2010 By 7 Comments
A couple of months ago, another traveler asked us what we were planning to do in our afterlife, you know, when we return to something that resembles normalcy. The name stuck and ever since then we’ve been discussing this theoretical post-trip existence as our afterlife. For us the afterlife is going to require a few [...]
Water Puppets, Primates and Tam Coc
November 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Those of you that have been following along with us are probably now thinking- how did you get from Beijing to Hanoi? Well it’s a long story, but basically traveling during National Holiday in China completely screwed up our itinerary. Since we were so limited in what transportation was available, we cobbled together a strange [...]
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