Since we had several hours to kill before we had to return the scooter, we decided to take all 50 cc’s of glory and cruise around the countryside before returning. We had a great time spotting the the scooters with the largest loads. This one takes the cake, hands down. There was virtually […]
We’d accomplished quite a lot before noon, but the temperature had been slowly rising all morning. We hadn’t had the option to rent riding jackets, so we were wearing our bulkiest clothing as safety gear on the scooter. In short, it was time to head back to our air conditioned room and cool down. At […]
With the Khmer New Year upon us, we planned to take a bus to Ho Chi Minh City, and asked our guesthouse to schedule our trip. They promised to do so without hesitation, but when we returned to the desk the next day, we were informed that he had to call five bus companies and […]
The previous evening’s wanderings had led us into a shiny, spacious tourist agency. We had heard that the Cu Chi tunnels were a thing to not be missed, so a bit uncharacteristically, we gladly payed for the chance to crawl through the impossibly narrow tunnels. Our afternoon trip to the tunnels meant that we […]
Based on my hotel points situtaion, we made a hotel switch for our last night and ended up at the five star Hyatt. It was monumental enough that we took pictures because staying in a five star hotel is unlikely to ever happen again since I am now officially out of hotel points. Our morning swim yesterday […]
We weren’t feeling so hot after our long flight between Saigon and Narita, Japan. Neither of us had gotten much sleep, and our two weeks of non-stop playing had successfully worn us out. With an 8 hour layover, though, we pushed through since we were in Japan after all. After two weeks in Southeast Asia, […]