March 17 – 25, 2016 Our ten-hour sleeper bus trip from Nha Trang arrives at 5:30 a.m. in Hoi An, the city of lanterns. Everything is closed, which means everything looks abandoned. Metal cages close up the entrances to really ugly square concrete buildings ten feet wide by many (3-7) stories high. The concrete buildings … More Goose Bumps Finally… Hoi An, Vietnam
We leave the grumpy old man behind in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and head for the hill town of Dalat (Đà Lạt) via the infamous “sleeper bus”. Take your shoes off at the bus entrance, place them in the plastic bag provided by the driver and squirm your way down the narrow hall to … More Southern Vietnam – Escaping the City
March 16, 2016 We take a four hour, air horn blaring bus ride from the hill city of Da Lat, Vietnam to the seaside resort of Mui Ne, Vietnam. The bus doesn’t stop where we thought it was supposed to (we hear this is common in Vietnam) and we end up five kilometres (km) from … More Ignorance would be bliss
March 3-6, 2016 … too long! Disclaimer: This post is written by a person who is 95% happy go lucky dude and 5% grumpy old man when all the grumpy elements are in alignment. Christine says if we had spent any more time together in Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC, formerly Saigon) that she would … More Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam brings out the grumpy old man
The Roaming Two 