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The Road Less Travelled
Da Nang Life Travel Vietnam

The Road Less Travelled

We had another snag at the government complex and our paperwork was to be pushed off another day. This time however, we dealt with an older woman who seemed more professional and human than the gentleman we had been dealing with in days prior.… continue reading Read More
Da Nang Life Travel Vietnam

The Land of the Red Stamp

Everything in Vietnam is stamped in red, an endless conveyor built of bureaucracy bathed in blood. The blood of the red stamp. Paperwork, handwritten ledgers, massive books holding the information of all the citizenry in which it upholds. A red stamp on a grocery receipt that denotes it’s been paid.… continue reading Read More
the Honeymoon
Da Nang Food Life Travel Vietnam

The Honeymoon

After an incredible evening we retired to the apartment where the floor had erupted into quite a flat party. The festivities carried on into the wee hours of the night. Over the course of the evening guests came and went. So I took some time preparing a few treats for our rotating circle of friends on the floor.… continue reading Read More
Da Nang Food Life Travel Vietnam

Tom, Jerry and the Mallrats.

Diá»…m 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
Food Hoi An Life Travel Vietnam

The Night Markets and Returning To Há»™i An

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 Read More
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
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