Author: Dennis Davis
Da Nang
Food
Life
Travel
Vietnam
Tom, Jerry and the Mallrats.
Diễm and I went out for a little breakfast at a nearby restaurant and it was a beautiful scene. We sat in the cooler morning breeze as the rain had returned and the temperature was much more bearable outside where there was a nice coastal breeze.… continue reading Read More
Da Nang
Life
Vietnam
A Sleepless Night With Cúp Điễn
I had just finished feeding the family when the power went out. Emergency lighting came on in the apartments stairwells and hallway and every one on the floor seemed to not be surprised. Windows were opened there was some mild chatter and everyone settled down for the evening.… continue reading Read More
Food
Hoi An
Life
Travel
Vietnam
As I’ve discussed previously the heat is blistering here. In Southeast Asia one of the many beautiful things that is either directly or indirectly caused by an attempt to avoid the sun are night markets, and Vietnam boasts some of the best.… continue reading
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The Night Markets and Returning To Hội An
Da Nang
Life
Travel
Vietnam
The Goldilocks Effect.
It’s tough enough that the indochina peninsula has been a sweltering jungle symbol for heat and frustration for decades, but couple that with historic heights of the thermometer in recent months and what your left with is a place even the indigenous don’t want to wander outside in.… continue reading Read More
Da Nang
Life
Travel
Vietnam
The Cold Shower I So Desire
First of all I know where your heads at on this one and your way off base. There are some rather interesting features of my new apartment here in Da Nang that makes it a bit unconventional especially to be brand new and for all other aspects very modern.… continue reading Read More
Da Nang
Jet Lag
Life
Travel
Vietnam
Da Nang: Return to the City of Bridges
It has been a few days since I arrived back in Da Nang and I must say it is a much different place than I left some four months ago. I was fortunate back in January and February to experience Da Nang and most of Vietnam in a mild spell of “winter”, if one can call any place and time in indochina such a word as winter.… continue reading Read More
Life
Mexico
Travel
Sometimes, Just Sometimes you go against your instincts and…..
We had a very easy flight to Mexico and immigration and boarder control in the tourist region of the Yucatan and the ease of which it operates is academic. Our return home however, would be much different. We flew to Mexico on Jet blue and it was comfortable and prompt and it lulled me into a sense of comfort that I should have known my old nemesis Spirit Airlines would destroy.… continue reading Read More
Food
Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Travel
Playa Centro and Taqueria Erika
After a couple of intense days of exploration and adventure it was time to slow things down. We were, after all, in paradise and it seemed a waste to rush it all away. We slowly got ourselves up, in no hurry to do anything, as all of our scheduled events had been fulfilled.… continue reading Read More
Food
Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Travel
A Sunrise, Some Art, and an evening in the neighborhood.
After falling asleep very early the night before, I awoke around 5:45 to a quite morning. The sun rises at closer to 7 and I wanted to catch at least one. The sun rises on the ocean side of the island about a block from our apartment and unobstructed.… continue reading Read More
Chapultepec
Food
Life
Mexico
Mexico City
Puebla Nuevo
San Guillermo
Travel
Oh, how I go back to the place I was first lost.
Mexico has such a potent presence in my psyche. She was the first place I saw a structure thousands of years old, the first place I lost myself in a world completely foreign from my own, the first time I walked the streets of a city with 32 million inhabitants where the majority were impoverished.… continue reading Read More
Food
Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Travel
The day she’s been waiting for.
I awoke on this our second morning and I knew this was the day. Our entire trip began with one simple request many months ago. I asked Maggie sometime last year what she wanted her big trip to be for the summer.… continue reading Read More
Food
History
Isla Mujeres
Life
Mexico
Nature
Travel
I awoke just before dawn and stepped outside to see our small Colonia street begin to wake up. Off the terrace, I could see a woman sweeping the sidewalk in front of her doorway. Another headed off to work. Further up, headlights lit up as a motorbike purred to life and rolled down the otherwise quiet street.… continue reading
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