We spent yesterday relaxing on the beaches of Nha Trang. Our first order of business was a quick speedboat ride out to an island to see the local aquarium. The aquarium fish? Not so interesting. The aquarium itself? Wow. I've tried to find on-line pictures of the huge monstrosity of a concrete pirate ship that is the aquarium, but to no avail ( Read more... )

Miss K and I are still here in Vietnam. We've been enjoying (*cough*) the mysterious experience that is Vietnam Airlines. We've had two out of two domestic flights canceled, and after one of them we ended up in the wrong city ( Read more... )

I actually popped quite a good fever that night, but some Tylenol got it down the next morning so we were able to go out for the day. We saw the Citadel and the Imperial City (very much along the lines of the Forbidding City in Beijing, China). We also visited three different tombs of past kings. They were all very beautiful and impressive. On ( Read more... )

Ha Long Bay was quite pretty. I would still pick the coast of Maine over it for beauty though! But it was nice to sleep on board the junk in the bay, see all the strange geologic formations, and take the chance to go swimming. I was afraid that the bay would make the heat would be all the more humid and oppressive, but fortunately nice sea ( Read more... )

We woke up to rain again this morning- we were hoping that things would dry off and let us drive way out to see a certain waterfall. We tried anyway, but the road was under construction so everything was a muddy mess. After we skidded out and fell over on our motorcycle about a half kilometer into the construction (to the amusement of the workers ( Read more... )

Hi all, we're doing well here in Vietnam. We are currently at the "Cat Cat Hotel" in Sa Pa, which is in the northwest of the country very near China. Outside our hotel across the narrow valley is the Fancy Pants (Fan Si Pan) Mountain, the highest in the country. It's great ( Read more... )

Lady K and I spent the day at the Vietnamese Ethnology Museum. I was looking forward to being inside an airconditioned museum instead of a sweltering pagoda for a change. Silly me! Thankfully it rained a lot this morning which kept the heat down, so the non-airconditioned museum was only MOSTLY-unbearable. Thankfully there were a number of ( Read more... )

Hanoi is pretty cool. I don't mean temperature of course. It's pretty gosh-darn hot and humid! But, once you manage to pant your way beyond that, there is quite a bit to see! Keya and I have seen Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, the Ho Chi Minh Museum, the Temple of Literature, the One-Pillar Pagoda, the central lake, the Old City, the War Museum, St. ( Read more... )

Keya and I have reached Hanoi, Vietnam and have pretty much recuperated from the 20+ hours of travelling to get here. Not much to report yet, but we're looking forward to exploring!

My eyes are healing up nicely. They start to ache toward the middle afternoon and they are still light sensitive, but other than a little extra glare around bright lights at night my vision is really great. I'm at 20/15 in my left eye, and 20/20+2 in my right eye. I can't imagine my vision continuing to improve at this point, but they say it ( Read more... )