Goal in life now... Marry rich oil tycoon in Vung Tau and live a prissy, stuck up pampered life, being stuffed by some old ugly white guy ( Read more... )

What a busy day! Today I got up early and went to meet Ben, the German I met on the Mekong Tour. We wandered around a bit and took pictures of things he wanted to see for his last day. We even made it to the Temple I wanted to see ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Mekong Delta with a tour group. The best part of the tour was probably the people I was with and the last village we ended up at ( Read more... )

So, I can't sleep... I have to get up in about 3 hours.

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Today we went to the markets and wandered around, looking for clothing and spice racks. In retrospect it was all kind of depressing and I can't quite figure out why. Every aisle was packed with clothing and shoes and touristy chinese/vietnamese kitchy things and delicious smelling food.... We passed by hundreds of (mostly) women, attempting to ( Read more... )

Today I managed to wake up earlier today 7 instead of 11 although I didn't make it out of my room until around 830. I'm still a bit daunted? I really can't think of the right word... over the 5 million solicitations I (and all tourists) get from people selling sunglasses, trying to get me to eat at their place, trying to get me to get a massage, ( Read more... )

So first off, crossing the street is not the nightmare people claimed it to be. In fact it's pretty easy if you keep your wits about you ( Read more... )

So, to the few and far between who are reading this... I'm in Vietnam. The 15 hour flight from Chicago to HK was fine, fairly uneventful. I met a wonderfully friendly and chatty Vietnamese woman and her American husband who were coming back from Atlanta. Her accent was thick but we were able to communicate fairly well. He was fairly quiet, but ( Read more... )

So Friday I spend about 500$ on clothing and various other things for Vietnam. I don't really think that I should have bought/spent that much on things that I could probably get there, but I did it anyways ( Read more... )