by admin | Aug 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Into the Heart of Darkness Actually, the boat trip up the Mekong was uneventful. I kept looking for remnants of that bridge from Apocalypse Now, but there wasn”t much to see from the middle of a mile-wide river, red with the mud of the half dozen countries it...
by admin | Aug 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Goodbye Vietnam Day 8 I guess I am lucky to have Internet access at every hotel, but dealing with emails is not easy. That”s why I started attaching these MSWORD files. We are in the Mekong Delta border town of Chau Doc, and we leave early tomorrow morning by...
by admin | Aug 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Now in Can Tho Today is Wednesday, August 5, and we are in Can Tho in a hotel next to the Mekong River. This computer doesn”t have a USB port, so I still can”t send any photos. Backing up to August 2, we flew out of Tan Son Nhat in Saigon to Dalat, a quick...
by admin | Aug 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
It is now August 4, and this is the first time that I have had time to write anything down. The last few days have been a whirlwind, trying to cram everything into a trip that is clearly too short. We are now in Dalat but return to Saigon via air late this afternoon....
by admin | Jul 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Shirley and I are taking advantage of the City Council August hiatus to make a trip I have wanted to do for many years, revisiting southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand) for the first time in 40 years. I intend to try and provide a running account of this...
