I never really realized how big Vietnam actually is. When looking at a map, it simply appears to be a short stretch of land along the southeast Asian peninsula but in reality it’s over two thousand miles long, about the distance from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC. Because of this, our tour operator correctly booked…
Category: Vietnam
Roosters Can’t Tell Time
Call me crotchety (or don’t, name calling isn’t nice), but the older I get the more I’m drawn to more rural and quiet settings where one isn’t bombarded by domed sort of stimulation. Luckily our next leg of the trip was able to accommodate just that as we left thousands of motorbikes and their horns…
Hanoi’s Old Quarter
It’s been a little over eight years since we were last in Asia and while many aspects of our honeymoon remain fresh in the mind, the culture shock was the one that I completely forgot about. In other parts of the world, it’s easy to blend in with the crowd but the drastic difference between…
