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2006 Vietnam

• 2006 Vietnam, 2007 Cuba, 2007 Egypt-Jordan, 2007 Uganda-Tanzania

  shave and a haircut: two đồng / pesos / pounds / shillings

  07.10.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Getting your hair cut in foreign countries where you don’t know the local way to say “short on the sides, long on top” can be a pretty harrowing experience. Incorrect pronunciation or insufficiently illustrative hand-gestures could lead to a long night of searching for MC Hammer pants to go with your new Kid ‘n [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Honeymoon suite

  04.09.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a comfortable (!) overnight train ride we arrived tired but jubilant in Sapa, in the northwest corner of Vietnam close to the Chinese border. Mountains, terraced agriculture, and clouds, clouds, clouds.
  We arrived at the last of three hotels we’d inspected and found wanting, and trudged dutifully up the stairs to look at the [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  The finish line

  04.03.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a long afternoon of internetting and agonising on the couch of a JAL office, we’ve finally set a return date to Canada: 25th April. This will involve evacuating Hanoi (by plane, not by chopper) on the 10th April to a rather unexpected destination: back to Bangkok. There we’ve got 11 days to delay reality [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Road to nowhere

  04.03.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  So for whatever reason, we are getting booted out of the country (along with everyone else who got their visa at embassies in Cambodia) on the 10th April. Ostensibly some big National Congress meeting or something (btw, did I mention that the Party is Life?), though now that we’re in Vietnam no one has heard [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Road from Hoi An to Hué

  03.30.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  First grey rain in 3 months now. The land turns green green green. You’d think it was Ireland from the brochures, but for the palm trees and longhorn cows. Green paddies glow, flaring in the dim afternoon light. Sparks of white: scraps of cloth hanging from sticks topped with conical hats, sprinkled in the paddies [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Party policies allow me to live a full and productive life

  03.27.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Follow-up to that last post: I so didn’t feel inspired at 4 in the morning, as the Vietnamese seem to have two standing policies:

  Put all foreigners at the back of the bus.
  Never replace the shocks on the bus.

  But at least I have posted again – scroll down to March 6th. Funny thing: I actually [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Vietnam, Quixotic Notions

  Published again!

  03.26.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Well we’ve been in Vietnam now for a few days and it’s not been as bad as all the news we’ve heard from people who’ve been. We haven’t been killed by traffic in Saigon; we haven’t been completely ripped off (only partially, and on several occasions); we haven’t had our asses dragged 5 blocks [...]

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Junkies for that feeling you get just before you board a plane, train, or automobile for somewhere other than here, we're seeing as much of the world as we can, staying one step ahead of the trifecta spectre (trispectre?) of security, progeny and mortgages.

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