Month: February 2019

Da Nang Life Travel Vietnam

NgÅ© Hành SÆ¡n – The Marble Mountains.

When the elevator door opened, the site, I must say, was pretty impressive. I don’t know if it was the strange newness of everything to me. But I had a sense of awe almost everywhere I went in Vietnam. As I walked off the elevator, I passed by the ticket booth selling passes to return down the elevator.… continue reading Read More
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Breakfast Offers a Brief History lesson and a trip to Temple.

It was the 8th of February, and I had Three full days left in Vietnam. I had planned to relax some while spending my last week in Da Nang, but Diem had this way of suggesting we go out for breakfast or coffee, and I’d find myself on another incredible adventure.… continue reading Read More
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The Lady of the Sea.

I have had some computer issues in my last days in Vietnam. This was mainly due to some adapter problems. To be honest, I probably could have found an adapter, but I had been so consumed by life in the young and prosperous city by the sea to be too concerned with it.… continue reading Read More
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Home.

I haven’t been writing lately. I haven’t been taking as many photographs or focusing on the journey. I’ve been too busy living. Sometimes, the world is better seen through an unobstructed view. I have seen some beautiful places, and yes, I took some pictures in my last week in Vietnam.… continue reading Read More
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The Trek back to Da Nang and Living like an expat.

I was awakened at 4:30 and informed that we had to be about a mile away by 5:30 to catch our shuttle to Da Nang. It was the first time since arriving here that I was up before the sun, but not by much.… continue reading Read More
The Phoenix Generation
An Lao Food History Life Travel Vietnam

The Phoenix Generation

A Change of Plans In the early morning fog of the rising sun, the house was buzzing with everyone saying their goodbyes and heading home. Hai and his wife were headed back near Da Nang this misty morning. I thought my ride-in had been a little rough.… continue reading Read More
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A Girl Named Xù.

As we returned home and night had fallen on the village, we arrived at a house full of guests. Friends and family visited back and forth from house to house, having a beer or maybe some tea. In every home you entered you were to light a stick of incense say a prayer and place it in the ancestral urn.… continue reading Read More
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An Unexpected and Unforgettable Walk In the Woods.

New Year’s Day was not unlike at home. For the most part, it was a day of official rest for all and not much was going on. There had been plenty of food prepared, and it was a kind of fend-for-yourself environment.… continue reading Read More
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I Thought the War had Ended; Lunar New Years Eve.

I was rocked awake by what seemed like a massive explosion right outside my bedroom window. As my mind recoiled back from the land of slumber, it began firing on all cylinders cataloging possibilities and scenarios. A second explosion shook me even more, and then reality finally coalesced in my thoughts.… continue reading Read More
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If Everything is Big in Texas, I’m Finally a Millionaire, Why Napkins are Overrated and the Archetype of Beauty.

I can’t push out these entries fast enough, and some just aren’t big enough to warrant their own entry. So I’m going to start consolidating some of my thoughts into conglomerated posts. This particular post will be an attempt to piece together a collection of separate ideas and I’ll start with my observations into size.… continue reading Read More
An Lao Food Life Travel Vietnam

A Conversation About Food 2: The Duality of Consumption and the Lure of the Jungle.

I wrote in my earlier entry about the food and what I had discovered. What I wrote was only part of the picture. It’s a far more complicated and layered reality than I had originally expected. I had not ventured into the jungle when I wrote part one of this story, but in a way, I think it’s fitting that it’s structured this way, partly because of the duality aspect.… continue reading Read More
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I Could Not Have Imagined

I awoke from my jungle nap sometime around 4. I had, at this point, given up on keeping up with things as trivial as time. A handful of things were important here: was it day or night, was it time to eat, had an appropriate amount of time passed yet for a bath, and where was the coffee?… continue reading Read More
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