On our second day in Saigon we rode out to a plantation in the Mekong Delta for a tour. Afterwards most of the group pressed on deeper in the Mekong to visit a school the Friends of Danang had helped build a few years ago, but Noreen and I had planned long before to return…
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Seriously, I’ll put up an actual post sometime today but this picture brought up too many good memories. I spent a lot of time on airplanes during our trip and flying on EVA has pretty much ruined me for domestic carriers. This is me, in business class, flying from Saigon to Taipei: Flight was 3/4…
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I always enjoy watching the final round of the Masters, since about 10 years ago I nearly had a nervous breakdown slogging through a take-home final exam in Accounting. Our professor said it should take us about 3 or 4 hours–I spent over 15 hours on it and received a merciful C. I still lived…
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I don’t know if it’s possible to strangle a computer but I’m starting to consider giving it a shot. I don’t know what I did, but I screwed something up and I can’t get Photoshop Elements to work. It loads, then freezes. Which means that I can’t use it to play with the thousands of…
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I’m of no use to anyone today. Feel awful. Gotta catch up on sleep and I’m still in the grips of the cold I got my second day in Saigon. Can’t shake it, and now I’ve got a headache to boot. I was thinking about all the travel we did on the trip and something…
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Let me briefly pause from writing about my Vietnam trip to speak about the arrest of Steely McBeam on drunk-driving charges. Well, not the infernal foam-rubber suit itself, but one of the actors who gave that ghastly puppet life. While I don’t condone driving with a BAC of .166, you can understand why portraying Steely…
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I’m sitting in the main corridor of the Philly airport, sucking up power for the laptop and waiting out the hour till we board our flight to Pittsburgh. Our flight from Taipei was late taking off and when we finally arrived in LA we only had an hour to catch our connection to Charlotte. I…
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Last night I sat in a Vietnamese bar listening to a pretty Filipino woman sing a pitch-perfect cover of a Cranberries song. In her native language, of course. We’re watiing here in Da Nang to catch our flight back to Saigon and the gift shop has songbooks you can buy of the ABBA, Bee Gees…
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One of the projects the Friends of Danang group worked on previously was building an elementary school. We visited that school on Thursday, and when our bus pulled up…well, I now know how John, Paul, George and Ringo felt at the height of Beatlemania. The kids went NUTS. Screaming and yelling and laughing like, well,…
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With WiFi and constant power I should be cranking out posts, but you try writing ten-thousand words after the day we had. Drove out into the country to dedicate the new bridge at Hoi Yen, and it all went very, very well. A big turnout, even a number of former NVA and/or Viet Cong soldiers…
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