220 stories

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Constant Epicurean Ep. 43, Âu Cơ the Fairy Princess, The Dragon Lord Lac long Quân, and water culture. Exploring Vietnamese mythology.